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Special relativity (alternative formulations)

About: Special relativity (alternative formulations) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 3102 publications have been published within this topic receiving 55015 citations.


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors defend the traditional view that special relativity is preferable to those parts of Lorentz's classical ether theory it replaced because it revealed various phenomena that were given a dynamical explanation to be purely kinematical.
Abstract: In his book, Physical Relativity, Harvey Brown challenges the orthodox view that special relativity is preferable to those parts of Lorentz’s classical ether theory it replaced because it revealed various phenomena that were given a dynamical explanation in Lorentz’s theory to be purely kinematical. I want to defend this orthodoxy. The phenomena most commonly discussed in this context in the philosophical literature are length contraction and time dilation. I consider three other phenomena of this kind that played a role in the early reception of special relativity in the physics literature: the Fresnel drag eect in the Fizeau experiment, the velocity dependence of electron mass in -ray deflection experiments by Kaufmann and others, and the delicately balanced torques on a moving charged capacitor in the Trouton-Noble experiment. I oer historical sketches of how Lorentz’s dynamical explanations of

113 citations

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TL;DR: A guide to theorems on existence and global dynamics of solutions of the Einstein equations can be found in this article, where a conjectural picture of the asymptotic behaviour of general cosmological solutions is built up.
Abstract: This article is a guide to theorems on existence and global dynamics of solutions of the Einstein equations. It draws attention to open questions in the field. The local-in-time Cauchy problem, which is relatively well understood, is surveyed. Global results for solutions with various types of symmetry are discussed. A selection of results from Newtonian theory and special relativity that offer useful comparisons is presented. Treatments of global results in the case of small data and results on constructing spacetimes with prescribed singularity structure are given. A conjectural picture of the asymptotic behaviour of general cosmological solutions of the Einstein equations is built up. Some miscellaneous topics connected with the main theme are collected in a separate section.

112 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the relation between three different approaches of theories with a minimal length scale: a modification of the Lorentz group in the deformed special relativity, theories with generalized uncertainty principle and those with modified dispersion relations is clarified.
Abstract: The aim of this note is to clarify the relation between three different approaches of theories with a minimal length scale: a modification of the Lorentz group in the 'deformed special relativity', theories with a 'generalized uncertainty principle' and those with 'modified dispersion relations'. It is shown that the first two are equivalent, how they can be translated into each other, and how the third can be obtained from them. An adequate theory with a minimal length scale requires all three features to be present.

110 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the second-order optical tests of special relativity are discussed within the framework of the test theory developed previously, and several experiments are suggested to improve this-accuracy.
Abstract: Various second-order optical tests of special relativity are discussed within the framework of the test theory developed previously. Owing to the low accuracy of the Kennedy-Thorndike experiment, the Lorentz contraction is known by direct experiments only to an accuracy of a few percent. To improve this-accuracy several experiments are suggested.

110 citations

01 Jan 1971

109 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202152
202073
201970
201870
201790
201693