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The Apache Point Lunar Laser-ranging Operation (APOLLO), in NM, can detect photon bounces from retro-reflectors on the moon surface to 0.1ns timing resolution. This facility enables not only the detection of light speed anisotropy, which…

General Physics · Physics 2010-02-09 Reginald T Cahill

With the advent of gravitational-wave astronomy marked by the aLIGO GW150914 and GW151226 observations, a measurement of the cosmological speed of gravity will likely soon be realized. We show that a confirmation of equality to the speed of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-02 Lucas Lombriser , Nelson A. Lima

We investigate spacetimes in which the speed of light along flat 4D sections varies over the extra dimensions due to different warp factors for the space and the time coordinates (``asymmetrically warped'' spacetimes). The main property of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Csaba Csaki , Joshua Erlich , Christophe Grojean

Based on general relativity, it can be argued that deviations from a uniform Hubble flow should be thought of as variations in the Universe's expansion velocity field, rather than being thought of as peculiar velocities with respect to a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. L. McClure , C. C. Dyer

Our previous analyses of radio Doppler and ranging data from distant spacecraft in the solar system indicated that an apparent anomalous acceleration is acting on Pioneer 10 and 11, with a magnitude a_P ~ 8 x 10^{-8} cm/s^2, directed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-25 John D. Anderson , Philip A. Laing , Eunice L. Lau , Anthony S. Liu , Michael Martin Nieto , Slava G. Turyshev

The modification of the Doppler effect due to the coupling of the helicity of the radiation with the rotation of the source/receiver is considered in the case of the Pioneer 10/11 spacecraft. We explain why the Pioneer anomaly is not…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 John D. Anderson , Bahram Mashhoon

Recent studies have indicated that an anisotropic cosmic expansion may exist. In this paper, we use three datasets of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) to probe the isotropy of cosmic acceleration. For the Union2.1 dataset, the direction and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-23 Z. Q. Sun , F. Y. Wang

This treatise outlines how a non-systematic based Pioneer anomaly, with its implied violation (re: 'low' mass bodies only) of both general relativity's weak equivalence principle and the Newtonian inverse-square law, can be successfully…

General Physics · Physics 2012-11-12 Paul G. ten Boom

We make a reanalysis on the issue of neutrino speed anomaly by taking into account the newly reported data from the ICARUS experiment and other CNGS collaborations. We examine the consequence of the Lorentz violation on the neutrino speed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-04-30 Zhou Lingli , Bo-Qiang Ma

An anomalous constant acceleration of (8.7 \pm 1.3) x 10^-8 cm/s^2 directed toward the Sun has been discovered by Anderson et al. in the motion of the Pioneer 10/11 and Galileo spacecrafts. In parallel, the WMAP results have definitively…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-11-04 Laurent Nottale

The velocity of light is invariant under transformations that alter space-time metrics, while leaving Maxwell's equations invariant. A one-parameter special conformal invariance group of the equations exposes an ambiguity in current…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-03-14 Carl E. Wulfman

Gravity assist manoeuvres are one of the most succesful techniques in astrodynamics. In these trajectories the spacecraft comes very close to the surface of the Earth, or other Solar system planets or moons, and, as a consequence, it…

Space Physics · Physics 2017-01-25 L. Acedo

We present a Michelson-Morley type experiment for testing the isotropy of the speed of light in vacuum and matter. The experiment compares the resonance frequency of an actively rotated monolithic optical cryogenic sapphire resonator…

Classical Physics · Physics 2011-12-19 M. Nagel , K. Möhle , K. Döringshoff , E. V. Kovalchuk , A. Peters

We report the first direct photon velocity measurements for extragalactic objects. A fiber-optic, photon time-of-flight instrument, optimized for relatively dim sources ($m 12$), is used to measure the velocity of visible photons emanating…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-07 John B. Miller , Thomas E. Miller , Michael J. Hoffert , Larry A. Dingle , Robert Harwell , Edward Hayes

We have developed an apparatus to search for the higher-order Lorentz violation in photons by measuring the resonant frequency difference between two counterpropagating directions of an asymmetric optical ring cavity. From the year-long…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-02 Yuta Michimura , Jake Guscott , Matthew Mewes , Nobuyuki Matsumoto , Noriaki Ohmae , Wataru Kokuyama , Yoichi Aso , Masaki Ando

We continue our exploration of whether the flyby anomalies can be explained by scattering of spacecraft nucleons from dark matter gravitationally bound to the earth, with the addition of data from five new flybys to that from the original…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Stephen L. Adler

The Nonsymmetric Kaluza-Klein (Jordan-Thiry) Theory leads to a model of a modified acceleration that can fit an anomalous acceleration experienced by the Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft. The future positions of those spacecrafts are predicted…

General Physics · Physics 2015-10-30 M. W. Kalinowski

The GRAAL experiment could constrain the variations of the speed of light. The anisotropy of the speed of light may imply that the spacetime is anisotropic. Finsler geometry is a reasonable candidate to deal with the spacetime anisotropy.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-23 Zhe Chang , Sai Wang

The detected anomalous frequency drift acceleration in Pioneer's radar data finds its explanation in a Berry phase that obtains the quantum state of a photon that propagates within an expanding space-time. The clock acceleration is just the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. L. Rosales

The distribution of arrival directions of ultra-high energy cosmic rays may yield clues to their mysterious origin. We introduce a method of {\it invariant statistics} to analyze cosmic ray data which eliminates coordinate-dependent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Soebur Razzaque , John P. Ralston