Poundations of the New Field Theory. By M. Hons and L, Ierin,t Cambridge. (Communicated by RH, Rose, FIRS. inary 38,1084), $1. tnvaton The elation of matter ani the clectomnjuetifekt can Be Hntipeted from teppei tandpinta=— : "The Set wick mat be called the wnitaran snd aasumes only dre pasa mt. the elbtromsaneti til, "The particle of mathe are con- ‘Srl at singlartion of held ae aes is evs notion tobe expt by Gl nergy (letras a tho mel tutte ui tks Gls yar sto esntily item evi, The pts ae he sures a he ed ae acted on-by Shell ae not are fo; Hearts property i inti ines by a specie constant th mae : {thr pret ie nary al pvt hav apt the dati. view, shine support thie at 1 The fare of ate to Crap nnn thru atom fave hen mae itt eel eet eden (a) The thesis wid J.J. Phonon, at snp by Abas, itv sumptions shat the" ahape” and Kimi bens the lt ant leation of charge ey rgd scr af ‘lean rentratingeletom of Loren) they. beak own Tecuurthy a fopelled to trot cohesive fees of on ketromageetic erin (2) the thoy of Mit folly ave ths iit hy geeralzation Gf Moells tion mag tem non-linear; thie aepe brake down startet by Heise, Se ast, ani others, mske seo + Mewar Fallow ofthe Récetlor Foundation, 1 shou ike v9 thank the Rocke fale toandation forgiving mothe oppertnity to work in Cumbre {This eapmacon fn nothing to do with "way ” Eel tory dota Kita, Wop Yalusgtn ud etry whee the pron comnts of uniting the theories af gravitational st ete magic Bela nto 4 ied of non Geshatian geometry. Spectaly come of ington’ formes develops in § 101 of his bow Tho Mathenmatienl There of Netaiity "(Cambridge have emia formal ata tothowe of this paper, sa ite of the ontvely dierent pbysial interes "Pay wl. 7, p. G1 (1912); vo 3D, p 14192); vol AD, pA, Ao ors,“ atingee ache 281918.426, + -M, Bom and 1. Infeld. Ios Mis's Geld equations havo the unacceptable property, that thee scltions depend on the abate valu ofthe pteatil, 2. The rent of rdativty thoy, that th observed dopentance of ise ‘on welt iv in no way characteristic f lotromageotic mas, but can be derived tom he tandoemation I. 3. Lae, ut nt leas Me gr ute of quanta nehanen which in it preseut form is essentially bused on the dualistic view, It'started from the onmieration of cnclatrs and pte moving in « Conlmb fell; the tmetholsdevlopdin tins ees have tha been apps even tothe ctr fnnsnitic Sct, the. Fourie counts ‘of which: behave like hamono, owsilator Tint thre are indications that this quantum eketradynaricy mut con sileable difiutios and in quite insficiet to exphin several fact Tho dale are chiefly connect withthe ft thatthe aelFenengy of print charge in infita+ The farts amexplhined eonern the existence, of ‘emitary parties, te construction of the inl, the conversion of thse partikn nto other particles or into photons, st thal how cass thers plcen evidence Fat the pres theory em Intel by Dinw's wave sqution) hols us longus the wavelengths (ofthe Maxwall or ofthe de Bogie wes} are lng compared with the "ai of tho ehetton ec, but break down for tld containing shorter wavex Tho non appearance of Planck's coutant in this expression for th rai inate tet in the it pace the eloetromagnetic laws ae to be mii tho quantum laws may then be ated to the nv fl ratios Consiertion of this ont together with the convtion of the gent pi soplical mperrity of th unitaian en have led to the recent attupt: Construct new lectroynamie, busi on to rather different ines of thought A now theory of the slctromagntic Fld and a new method of quantin mechanical eaten Tescersdovirable to kep de to line spate inthe further development ‘The purpono of thib paper int pve a deepor foundation of the Hew Held equations on vlawial lines, without touching the question of the quantam theory. 1 "The attempt to avo tia dificuly by & now dation of etre frwe acting ox 8 sil in given tld, made by Wentz (1. Physi? vo. 88, pp. 70, 535 (1089), w N7-p 726 (1531). vty ings, but ster arial aed las to tw dioaltion 4 Born, Natrol 132 p. 2821059): "Pr. Ray Soe, A, wl 4, p 410 (158, ‘ited haw ofFoundations of New Field Theory. 427 In the popit ted above, the aw fold theory has ten into har Aogratialy, by amuing that th Lagrangian indelying Atawel theory Laser—py aay (Vand Rae apae vector of th letric and magnets oi) ast be replaced by the expres caw Ji are. aa) Te obvious physical idea of this modification isthe following — ‘The furs ithe pewent theory may be expromed by she statement that 1 volts the principle of fnienes which postulates that a satisfactory theory stould suit letting physical quattitir become infinite, Applying this winciple to the Seocty one ie tad tothe. tunption of an upper init of teloity eu to ceplice the Newtonian action function 4 mot of fee pstcle /T Applying the same condition the pace itelf one is teal to the iden of cowed space an introduced by Binatein's coumological theory Applying it tothe clctromagnetio eld ne is at immdiately to the wssumption of an uppee init ofthe Geld atengt sd to the modication ofthe action anton (L1) int CL This urgunent aces vo be quite couvincing. But we belive shat deoper fouutation of such an iportant aw is noesary, just asin Einstein’ mechanice ‘he deeper fownlation in frovided by the postalte of rlativity,Asmuming ‘hath exprvsion m2 (t-te as been found by the dea ofa vebcity linia gen etiam be writen inthe forma hy the relativity expression me (1 =v sn (1 — dy, oud ie — dat — aye — a, ‘nd therefore it has the property that the time integral of me%dejdé is ia ‘rant for all transformations for'which dis invariant, This four dimen sional group of trunsformations is larger thin the thive-dimensional group of ‘tansformations for which the time integral of the Newtonian function fout dm (dolly; de dat 4 aye 4d 1 See Bor ad Tah, * Natrol 182, 9,100 (108. 1 Ser Bldingtn, "The Kxpanding Univer,” Cambie, 198%, 22