Øyvind Grøn

Øyvind Grøn in 2008

Øyvind Grøn (born 11 March 1944) is a Norwegian physicist.

He was born in Oslo, and is a twin.^[1] He took the cand. real. degree at the University of Oslo in 1973, majoring in meteorology. He followed up with the PhD degree in 1990 with a thesis on repulsive gravitation.^[2] He started his academic career as a research assistant at the University of Oslo, and has also been a lecturer there. He was appointed as a professor at Oslo University College in 1994, having been an associate professor since 1985.^[3] He has also been professor II at the University of Oslo since 1994.

He has been a member of the editorial board of the European Journal of Physics. He is also known for his popular contributions, through the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, in popular articles and lectures, in books^[3] as well as the encyclopedias Store norske leksikon and Norsk biografisk leksikon.

Scientific profile

Grøn has conducted research within the areas of general relativity, cosmology and classical electromagnetism. He has thrown new light on themes like the twin paradox,^[4] the physics in a rotating reference system (Ehrenfest paradox)^[5] and repulsive gravitation associated with vacuum energy.^[6] Together with Erik Eriksen at the University of Oslo he has also studied properties of the electromagnetic field produced by accelerated electric charges. They have in particular shown how gravitation impacts such fields.^[7] Grøn has also found new solutions to equations in Einstein's theory of gravity that describe time space where one can travel backwards in time.^[8] In several studies Grøn has focused on relativistic models of the universe. He has, among other things, shown that it is possible to interpret observations from cosmos so that the concept of dark energy is unnecessary.^[9] The relationship between gravitation and time and between gravitation and entropy are also themes where Grøn has contributed several journal articles.^[10] He has also contributed to the Kaluza-Klein theory that represents a geometric and unified theory of electromagnetism and gravitation. According to this theory the world is five-dimensional with a compact spatial dimension so small that it is not observable directly. He has shown that the electric field around a charged particle is the projection of the relativistic inertial dragging field caused by the particle's movement around the fifth dimension in our four-dimensional spacetime.^[11] Grøn has written three books on the theory of relativity.^[12][13][14]

Bibliography

• Grøn, Øyvind; Næss, Arne (1998). Introduction to general relativity and its mathematics. HiO-rapport 1998 14. Oslo: Høgskolen i Oslo. ISBN 978-82-579-0235-3.

• Grøn, Øyvind; Hervik, Sigbjørn (2007). Einstein's General Theory of Relativity: With Modern Applications in Cosmology. Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-69199-2.

• Grøn, Øyvind (2009). Lecture Notes on the General Theory of Relativity: From Newton’s Attractive Gravity to the Repulsive Gravity of Vacuum Energy. Lecture notes in physics 772. Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-88133-1.

• Grøn, Øyvind; Næss, Arne (2011). Einstein's Theory: A Rigorous Introduction for the Mathematically Untrained. Springer. ISBN 978-1-4614-0705-8.

References

1. "En jeger i kosmos". Forskning.no (in Norwegian). 5 February 2005. Retrieved 7 April 2009.
2. Repulsive gravitation, Dr. thesis at Universitetet of Oslo
3. "Ny professor ved ingeniørhøyskolen" (in Norwegian). Norwegian News Agency. 11 May 1994.
4. Ø. Grøn, The twin paradox in the theory of relativity. Eur. J. Phys. 27, 885-889 (2006)
5. Ø. Grøn, Relativistic description of a rotating disk. Am. J. Phys. 43, 869-976 (1975)
6. Ø. Grøn, Repulsive gravitation, Dr. Thesis at University of Oslo, 1990
7. Eriksen and Ø. Grøn, Electrodynamics of hyperbolically accelerated charges V: The field of a charge in the Rindler space and the Milne space. Ann. Phys. 313, 147-196 (2004)
8. Ø. Grøn and S. Johannesen, Closed timelike geodesics in a gas of cosmic strings. New Journal of Physics (2008)
9. H. Alnes, M. Amarzguioui, An inhomogeneous alternative to dark energy? Phys.Rev. D73 083519 (2006)
10. Ø. Grøn and S. Hervik, Gravitational entropy and quantum cosmology. Classical and Quantum Gravity 18, 601-918 (2001)
11. Ø. Grøn, Inertial dragging and Kaluza-Klein theory. Int. J. Mod. Phys. A20, 2270-2274 (2005).
12. Grøn, Øyvind; Hervik, Sigbjørn (2007). Einstein's General Theory of Relativity: With Modern Applications in Cosmology. Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-69199-2.
13. Grøn, Øyvind (2009). Lecture Notes on the General Theory of Relativity: From Newton’s Attractive Gravity to the Repulsive Gravity of Vacuum Energy. Lecture notes in physics 772. Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-88133-1.
14. Grøn, Øyvind; Næss, Arne (2011). Einstein's Theory: A Rigorous Introduction for the Mathematically Untrained. Springer. ISBN 978-1-4614-0705-8.