A THEORY OF CLASSICAL SPACETIME (I)—FOUNDATIONS

Despite its beauty and grandeur the theory of GR still appears to be incomplete in thefollowing ways:(1)It cannot accommodate the asymmetric total energy momentum tensor whoseasymmetry has been shown to exist in the presence of electromagnetism.(2)The law of angular momentum balance as an exact equation is not an automaticconsequence of the field equations as is the case with the law of linear momentum balance.(3)The four degrees of arbitrariness left by the contracted second Bianchi identitymakes a unique solution of the field equations unattainable without extra (unphysical)postulates.To answer the challenge posed by the above assertions we propose in this paper tocomplete Einstein’s theory by postulating the principle fibre bundle PM,SU(2)]for theunderlying geometry of the 4-dimensional spacetime,where the structre group SU (2) isthe real representation of the special complex unitary group of dimension 2. SU (2) leavesconcurrently invariant the metric form dS~2=g_(αβ)dx~αdx~β and the fundamenta