Author(s)

V. A. Andreev¹, D. Yu. Tsipenyuk^2*

¹Lebedev Physical Institute of RAS, Moscow, Russia.
²Prokhorov General Physics Institute of RAS, Moscow, Russia.

We propose the generalization of Einstein’s special theory of relativity (STR). In our model, we use the (1 + 4)-dimensional space G, which is the extension of the (1 + 3)-dimensional Minkowski space M. As a fifth additional coordinate, the interval S is used. This value is constant under the usual Lorentz transformations in M, but it changes when the transformations in the extended space G are used. We call this model the Extended space model (ESM). From a physical point of view, our expansion means that processes in which the rest mass of the particles changes are acceptable now. In the ESM, gravity and electromagnetism are combined in one field. In the ESM, a photon can have a nonzero mass and this mass can be either positive or negative. It is also possible to establish in the frame of ESM connection between mass of a particle and its size.

Photon, Mass, Size, 5-Dimensional Space, Extended Space Model, Gravitation, Special Theory of Relativity

Andreev, V. and Tsipenyuk, D. (2016) The Mass and Size of Photons in the 5-Dimensional Extended Space Model. Journal of Modern Physics, 7, 1308-1315. doi: 10.4236/jmp.2016.711116.