News tagged with lorentz invariance
Physicists offer foundation for uprooting a hallowed principle of physics
Physicists at Indiana University have developed a promising new way to identify a possible abnormality in a fundamental building block of Einstein's theory of relativity known as "Lorentz invariance." If confirmed, the abnormality ...
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When the speed of light depends on its direction
Light does not travel at the same speed in all directions under the effect of an electromagnetic field. Although predicted by theory, this counter-intuitive effect has for the first time been demonstrated ...
May 13, 2011 |
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Simulating tomorrow's accelerators at near the speed of light
(PhysOrg.com) -- As conventional accelerators like CERN's Large Hadron Collider grow ever more vast and expensive, the best hope for the high-energy machines of the future may lie in "tabletop" accelerators ...
Mar 18, 2011 |
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Best yet test of Lorentz invariance
The more crucial a physical law is, the more important it is to keep testing it. One of the most important laws formulated in the last century or so is Albert Einsteinэs principle of invariance, which says that there ...
Oct 25, 2010 |
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Origin of magnetic fields may lie in special relativity's spacetime distortions
(PhysOrg.com) -- Magnetic fields play an important role on scales ranging from the sub-atomic to the cosmic, from particle spins to galaxy clusters. Although scientists know how to create and manipulate magnetic ...
Sep 09, 2010 |
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Experiment tests underpinnings of quantum field theory, Bose-Einstein statistics of photons
(PhysOrg.com) -- Of all the assumptions underlying quantum mechanics and the theory that describes how particles interact at the most elementary level, perhaps the most basic is that particles are either ...
Jun 25, 2010 |
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Einstein's relativity survives neutrino test
Physicists working to disprove "Lorentz invariance" -- Einstein's prediction that matter and massless particles will behave the same no matter how they're turned or how fast they go -- won't get that satisfaction from muon ...
Oct 15, 2008 |
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Physicists Develop Test for 'String Theory'
For decades, scientists have taken issue with “string theory”—a theory of the universe which contends that the fundamental forces and matter of nature can be reduced to tiny one-dimensional filaments called strings—because ...
Jan 23, 2007 |
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