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I suggest that measurement in quantum theory should be regarded as a sense of time (of things happening), which is as important as the conventional relativistic notion of time. A key question -- of basic physical interest whether one…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-15 Adam Helfer

The Einsteinian Theory of Gravitation ("General Theory of Relativity") is founded essentially; on the reception that the geometrical properties of the 4-dimensional space-time continuum are defined from the matter in it. Contrary to this,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Mattes

In this paper, it is shown why Lorentz Transformation implies the general case where observed events are not necessarily in the inertia frame of any observer but assumes a special scenario when determining the length contraction and time…

General Physics · Physics 2012-09-24 Ibrahim M. Alabdulmohsin

To investigate the origin and nature of inertia, we introduce a new concept of hypothetical 2D, so-called, "master-space" (MS), subject to certain rules. The MS, embedded in the background 4D-spacetime, is an indispensable individual…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-03-14 Gagik Ter-Kazarian

Different aspects of relativity, mainly in a canonical formulation, relevant for the question "Is spacetime nothing more than a mathematical space (which describes the evolution in time of the ordinary three-dimensional world) or is it a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-07-31 Martin Bojowald

In this paper I argue for a reassessment of special relativity. The fundamental theory of relativity applicable in this Universe has to be consistent with the existence of the massive Universe, and with the effects of its gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 C. S. Unnikrishnan

We investigate the limitations of length measurements by accelerated observers in Minkowski spacetime brought about via the hypothesis of locality, namely, the assumption that an accelerated observer at each instant is equivalent to an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-27 Bahram Mashhoon , Uwe Muench

Flat space-time has not heretofore been thought a suitable locus in which to construct model universes because of the presumed necessity of incorporating gravitation in such models and because of the historical lack of a theory of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Wasley S. Krogdahl

At the end of the 19th century light was regarded as an electromagnetic wave propagating in a material medium called ether. The speed c appearing in Maxwell's wave equations was the speed of light with respect to the ether. Therefore,…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Rafael Ferraro

When we discuss problems on gravity, we can not avoid some fundamental physical problems, such as space-time, inertia, and inertial reference frame. The goal of this paper is to discuss the logic system of gravity theory and the problems of…

General Physics · Physics 2012-07-24 Ning Wu

In an apparently unexplored region of relativistic spacetime, a simple thought experiment demonstrates that conjoined Lorentz transformations predict a proper clock at rest will run backwards and that prediction violates the logical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Charles B. Leffert

A careful study is made of the operational meaning of the time symbols appearing in the space-time Lorentz transformation. Four distinct symbols, with different physical meanings, are needed to describe reciprocal measurements involving…

General Physics · Physics 2009-09-01 J. H. Field

Basic for the definition of 'time' are clocks operating under stationary conditions. The periods of two clocks can be compared with each other via two return experiments. The central clock mediates between the rotating and the inertial…

General Physics · Physics 2013-06-25 Richard Lenk

A relativistic positioning system is a physical realization of a coordinate system consisting in four clocks in arbitrary motion broadcasting their proper times. The basic elements of the relativistic positioning systems are presented in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-16 Bartolomé Coll , Joan Josep Ferrando , Juan Antonio Morales

A new speculative model for the expansion of our universe has been under development by the author for the last two decades, which correctly predicts astronomical measurements with no dark matter or dark energy. This new closed model (no…

General Physics · Physics 2010-02-16 Charles B. Leffert

In the Special Theory of Relativity space and time intervals are different in different frames of reference. As a consequence, the quantity 'velocity' of classical mechanics splits into different quantities in Special Relativity, coordinate…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas Greber , Heinz Blatter

There exist instances of dynamical systems possessing symmetry transformations of which the conserved Noether charges generating these symmetries feature an explicit time dependence in their functional representation over phase space. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-02 Jan Govaerts

In this manuscript we show that the geometrical localization mechanism implies a four dimensional mass for the photon. The consistence of the model provides a mass given exactly by $m_{\gamma}=\sqrt{R}/4$ where $R$ is the Ricci scalar. As a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-02 G. Alencar , C. R. Muniz , R. R. Landim , I. C. Jardim , R. N. Costa Filho

We start from the well-known form of the interval of the special relativity, stare it, and build up an attempt to implement the causality from it. Some features appear to be new, they involve the mass of the particle and the structure of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Ricardo Bentin

We pursue the view that quantum theory may be an emergent structure related to large space-time scales. In particular, we consider classical Hamiltonian systems in which the intrinsic proper time evolution parameter is related through a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Hans-Thomas Elze