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Special Relativity: Will it Survive the Next 101 Years?

By R.W.P. Drever (auth.) , Jürgen Ehlers , Claus Lämmerzahl (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2006
ISBN
3540345221, 9783540345220
DOI
10.1007/b11758914
Open Library ID
OL9056564M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
18 MB (19163832 bytes)
Series
Lecture Notes in Physics 702
Edition
1
Pages
533\549
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40
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Description

After a century of successes, physicists still feel the need to probe the limits of the validity of theories based on special relativity. Canonical approaches to quantum gravity, non-commutative geometry, string theory and unification scenarios predict tiny violations of Lorentz invariance at high energies. The present book, based on a recent seminar devoted to such frontier problems, contains reviews of the foundations of special relativity and the implications of Poincaré invariance as well as comprehensive accounts of experimental results and proposed tests. The book addresses, besides researchers in the field, everyone interested in the conceptual and empirical foundations of our knowledge about space, time and matter.

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