Volume 18: Pages 221-238, 2005

A Statistical Approach to the Concept of Mass

Martin Tamm

Department of Mathematics, University of Stockholm, S‐106 91 Stockholm, Sweden

In this paper we use methods from differential geometry and statistical mechanics to investigate a model for the concept of mass. The theory is not quantum mechanical in the usual sense, although certain features like multiple histories and uncertainty are included in a natural way.

Keywords: gravitation, mass, statistical mechanics, multiple histories, ensemble, dark matter

Received: October 4, 2004; Published online: December 15, 2008