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A general organizing principle is proposed that can be used to derive the equations of motion describing the near-equilibrium dynamics of causal and thermodynamically stable relativistic systems. The latter are found to display some new…

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Simply by assuming the first postulate of Special Relativity and by exploring Gedankenexperiments with electromagnetic forces, we suggest that there is a speed limit in the universe, which can be determined as a relation between vacuum…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-11-06 Sergio Eduardo Silva Duarte , Nathan Willig Lima

From an extended relativistic dynamics for a particle moving in a cosmic background field with temperature T, we aim to obtain the speed of light with an explicit dependence on the background temperature of the universe. Although finding…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-04 Cláudio Nassif Cruz , Antônio Carlos Amaro de Faria

The limited distinctness of physical systems is roughly expressed by uncertainty relations. Here we show distinctness is a finite resource we can exactly count to define basic physical quantities, limits to the resolution of space and time,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 Norman Margolus

Formal definition of the reference frame is given. This definition is valid for nonrelativistic and relativistic cases. Proposed definition allows using wide classes of reference frames without restriction to inertial, uniformly accelerated…

Classical Physics · Physics 2014-03-10 Oleg Igorevich Drivotin

In this paper we bring to light an hitherto undisclosed richness of this Theory, namely its admitting a consistent reformulation which is able to provide a unified scenario for all kinds of particles, be they lightlike or not. This result…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-04-14 Fernando de Felice , Giovanni Preti

Quantum speed limits set an upper bound to the rate at which a quantum system can evolve. Adopting a phase-space approach we explore quantum speed limits across the quantum to classical transition and identify equivalent bounds in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 B. Shanahan , A. Chenu , N. Margolus , A. del Campo

First, we extend the special relativity into the superluminal case and put forward a superluminal theory of kinematics, in which we show that the temporal coordinate need exchanging with one of the spatial coordinates in a superluminal…

General Physics · Physics 2009-07-22 Z. C. Tu , Z. Y. Wan

The relativistic Boltzmann equation for a constant differential cross section and with periodic boundary conditions is considered. The speed of light appears as a parameter $c>c_0$ for a properly large and positive $c_0$. A local existence…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Simone Calogero

The physical essence of the non-relativistic limit, from the relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell-Landau system to the Vlasov-Poisson-Landau system, lies in the transition from finite-speed electromagnetic waves to instantaneous Coulomb…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Chuqi Cao , Ling-Bing He , Yuanjie Lei , Qinghua Xiao

It is shown that the most important effects of special and general theory of relativity can be understood in a simple and straightforward way. The system of units in which the speed of light $c$ is the unit of velocity allows to cast all…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. B. Okun

The aim of this article is to promote the use of probabilistic methods in the study of problems in mathematical general relativity. Two new and simple singularity theorems, whose features are different from the classical singularity…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-02-21 Ismael Bailleul

In this paper, we endeavour to show that from the noncommutative nature of spacetime one can deduce the concept of relativity in the sense that the velocity cannot be infinite as in the case of Galilean relativity.

General Physics · Physics 2021-08-13 B. G. Sidharth , Abhishek Das

After a short Historical bibliographical note, in the Starting points attention will be focused on some postulates common to classical mechanics and special relativity. Starting from these premises, in the sections The deduction of the form…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Fabiano Minni

A spherically symmetric and static metric that describes physical coordinates is introduced. It is defined to be a metric that gives coordinate independent results for physically observable quantities without a further coordinate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yukio Tomozawa

This paper presents an information-theoretic view of how an observer within a quantum system will perceive his world. It is argued that because of the indistinguishability of quantum particles, a coherent state will appear to an observer…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Subhash Kak

The shortening of bodies in the direction of motion, Lorentz contraction, follows from the solution of Maxwell's equations. Moving light clocks will tick slower than those at rest because the speed of light does not depend on a source of…

General Physics · Physics 2008-09-24 Valery P. Dmitriyev

Earlier, we had presented \cite{heuristic} heuristic arguments to show that a {\em natural unification} of the ideas of the quantum theory and those underlying the general principle of relativity is achievable by way of the measure theory…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sanjay M. Wagh

A long-standing tradition, largely present in both the physical and the philosophical literature, regards the advent of (special) relativity -- with its block-universe picture -- as the failure of any indeterministic program in physics. On…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-03 Flavio Del Santo , Nicolas Gisin

We discuss the nature and a general formulation of the relativity principle and we show that it can be justified starting from a strictly operational point of view. We give some remark on the connection with the spacetime symmetry groups.…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Toller