[QuantumClue]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compactification_(physics)

http://www.theory.caltech.edu/people/jhs/strings/str142.html

http://superstringtheory.com/experm/exper5a1.html


The last link has math involved on the Kaluza-Klein Compactification.

[peppercorn]

Lost in the mists of posts I requested links for 'Vortexes Compactification' (your phrase) [plus something you said was a theory involving only photons] - Do you have these.

Although the only QM related maths I've touched on was in a Solid-state Physics module, I've little doubt of the rigour of String-theory, itself.

To paraphrase Star-Wars, 'These are not the equations I am looking for' []

[QuantumClue]

Vortexes, or atleast the term I use it, describes a field which experiences vortices, and the electromagnetic field would be such a prime example. The fifth dimension is supposed to be compactified in the KK-theory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaluza%E2%80%93Klein_theory .

As for the photon in a zitter motion, some references simply like to call it an electron zitter motion, but as I said, it was shown by Dirac that the electron could be a particle moving at lightspeed, but appears to move much slower because of zitter motion http://www.fqxi.org/data/essay-contest-files/Hestenes_Electron_time_essa.pdf

[QuantumClue]

[PDF] Standing (Electromagnetic) Wave Structure of the Electron- III ... File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick View
by VAI Menon - Related articles
arises when Hestenes assumes that the electron undergoes zitter motion at luminal velocities in the transverse direction. But motion at the luminal ...
vixra.org/pdf/1001.0008v2.pdf

[peppercorn]

Hmmm....

So 'vortexes' is your interpretation of looped dimensions - is that right?

Do any of these theories (or modern extensions of them) deal with a means of combining QM and gravity as 'Strings' attempt to?

[QuantumClue]

If my memory serves me correctly, the fifth dimensions is unified by adding an extra scalar term to the equations, so one might think of this as an attempt to unify the equations of quantum theory with relativity. String theory has taken considerable attention to the KK-theory.