After about a century of success, physicists feel the need to probe the limits of validity of special-relativity base theories. This book is the outcome of a special seminar held on this topic. The authors gather in a single volume an extensive collection of introductions and reviews of the various facets involved, and also includes detailed discussion of philosophical and historical aspects.
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From the reviews: "In the last decade and a half, many scientists have come to believe that special relativity, as Einstein formulated it, will need to be modified to accommodate a quantum theory of gravity. … the volume presents an excellent survey of current research on Lorentz symmetry. Most of the book should be accessible to graduate students and researchers who are interested in the field … . provide abundant references, which should be quite valuable in a field with as many counterintuitive features as Lorentz violation research." (Brett D Altschul, Classical and Quantum Gravity, Vol. 24, 2007)
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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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kinematical test theories, kinematical test theory, linear spacetime relation, premetric electrodynamics, doubly special relativity, bumblebee model, departures from special relativity, sidereal time variations, standard model extension, vanishing birefringence, kinematical space, lithium nitrate solution, magnetic filling factors, photon sector, model independent description, superluminal signal velocity, modular action, imaginary wave number, sidereal frequency, space granularity, noncommutative spacetimes, modified electrodynamics, resonator experiments, rotating experiments, gravity sector Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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kinematical test theories, kinematical test theory, linear spacetime relation, premetric electrodynamics, doubly special relativity, bumblebee model, departures from special relativity, sidereal time variations, standard model extension, vanishing birefringence, kinematical space, lithium nitrate solution, magnetic filling factors, photon sector, model independent description, superluminal signal velocity, modular action, imaginary wave number, sidereal frequency, space granularity, noncommutative spacetimes, modified electrodynamics, resonator experiments, rotating experiments, gravity sector Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Notes Phys, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, World Scientific, Cambridge University Press, Galilei Lie-algebra, Lecture Notes, University of Washington, Galilei Relativity Principle, Gravitational Physics, Lorentz Lie-algebra, Physikalische Zeitschrift, Domenico Giulini, Isotropy of Inertia, Nuovo Cim, Springer Verlag, Albert Einstein, Amherst College, Deep Thought, Living Rev, Oxford University Press, Taj Mahal, University of Western Australia, Abraham Ungar, Academic Press New!
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