Abstract

We discuss the theoretical and experimental foundations of the hypothesis on the origin of the magnetic fields of the Earth and other astrophysical objects, put forward in the early twentieth century by Sutherland and later by Einstein. According to this hypothesis, the electric charges of an electron and a proton are slightly different in absolute values, which, due to the rotation of the Earth (or another astronomical object), leads to emergence of a magnetic field. Terrestrial experiments aimed at determining the difference in the electric charges of an electron and a proton are discussed. The Sutherland–Einstein hypothesis is theoretically justified within the framework of two versions of the geometric approach: (1) in a simplified version of the 6-dimensional Kaluza–Klein theory, and (2) in the framework of the 5-dimensional Kaluza theory with scalarism, as well as in the framework of the relational approach.

中文翻译：

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关于天体磁场起源的萨瑟兰-爱因斯坦假说

摘要

我们讨论了 20 世纪初由萨瑟兰和后来的爱因斯坦提出的地球和其他天体磁场起源假说的理论和实验基础。根据这个假设，电子和质子的电荷绝对值略有不同，这是由于地球（或其他天文物体）的自转而导致磁场的出现。讨论了旨在确定电子和质子电荷差异的陆地实验。Sutherland-Einstein 假设在几何方法的两个版本的框架内在理论上是合理的：(1) 在 6 维 Kaluza-Klein 理论的简化版本中，