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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Historical and Philosophical Aspects
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Front Matter
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Foundation and Formalism
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Front Matter
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Violations of Lorentz Invariance?
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Front Matter
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Experimental Search
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Front Matter
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About this book
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.
Reviews
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)
Editors and Affiliations
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Albert-Einstein-Institut MPl Gravitationsphysik, Golm, Germany
Jürgen Ehlers
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ZARM, Universität Bremen Am Fallturm, Bremen, Germany
Claus Lämmerzahl
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Special Relativity
Book Subtitle: Will it Survive the Next 101 Years?
Editors: Jürgen Ehlers, Claus Lämmerzahl
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b11758914
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-34522-0Published: 06 September 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-42113-6Published: 27 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-34523-7Published: 11 September 2006
Series ISSN: 0075-8450
Series E-ISSN: 1616-6361
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 533
Topics: Quantum Field Theories, String Theory, Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory, Mathematical Methods in Physics