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Observers in Spacetime and Nonlocality

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-06-12 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Characteristics of observers in relativity theory are critically examined. For field measurements in Minkowski spacetime, the Bohr-Rosenfeld principle implies that the connection between actual (i.e., noninertial) and inertial observers must be nonlocal. Nonlocal electrodynamics of non-uniformly rotating observers is discussed and the consequences of this theory for the phenomenon of spin-rotation coupling are briefly explored.

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@article{arxiv.1211.1077,
  title  = {Observers in Spacetime and Nonlocality},
  author = {B. Mashhoon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.1077},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

18 pages, accepted for publication in Annalen der Physik; v2: minor improvements

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