Academic Research

I am a Principal Research Scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology. I received my Doctorate in Mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York in 2007. My academic research focuses primarily on the foundations of quantum theory and on quantum gravity.

Curriculum Vitae

Email at andert at gatech dot edu.

Research

My research explores the effects of a compact 5th dimension on our universe. The existence of a tiny, curled-up 5th dimension is well-known to be a candidate for the source of dark matter as the lightest Kaluza-Klein particle. I have shown, however, that such a dimension can have other effects that might be attributed to dark matter, and these effects might explain some of the deviations observed from dark matter models, such as fitting of the Tully-Fisher relation for the rotational curves of galaxies.

In addition, my most recent work on compact 5th dimension on quantum field theory and quantum mechanics shows how wavefunction collapse may be a byproduct of how quantum fields interact with themselves in the 5th dimension, suggesting that quantum mechanics may have collapse dynamics and classicality built-in if a 5th dimension exists.

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