Relativistic positioning systems: Perspectives and prospects
Abstract
Relativistic positioning systems are interesting {\em technical objects} for applications around the Earth and in the Solar system. But above all else, they are basic {\em scientific objects} allowing developing relativity from its own concepts. Some past and future features of relativistic positioning systems, with special attention to the developments that they suggest for an {\em epistemic relativity} (relativistic experimental approach to physics), are analyzed. This includes {\em relativistic stereometry}, which, together with relativistic positioning systems, allows to introduce the general relativistic notion of (finite) {\em laboratory} (space-time region able to perform experiments of finite size).
Cite
@article{arxiv.1302.5782,
title = {Relativistic positioning systems: Perspectives and prospects},
author = {Bartolomé Coll},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.5782},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
Keynote speech given at the workshop "Relativistic Positioning Systems and their Scientific Applications" held at Brdo (Slovenia), 19th to 21th Sep 2012, organized by the ESA Advanced Concepts Team and the University of Ljubljana