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Selleri's paradox, based on an analysis of rotating frames, appears to show that the speed of light in an inertial system is not normally isotropic. This in turn seems at odds with the second postulate of special relativity requiring a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Klaus Kassner

It continues to be alleged that superluminal influences of any sort would be inconsistent with special relativity for the following three reasons: (i) they would imply the existence of a distinguished' frame; (ii) they would allow the…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2013-05-22 Kent A. Peacock

In this article, we present several apparent paradoxes of special relativity and their respective solutions. These paradoxes have appeared since the advent of relativity in 1905, and in fact they are never paradoxes. From a didactic point…

Popular Physics · Physics 2023-07-13 G. Alencar , J. Macedo , L. Maranhão , P. Carneiro

Photonic tunneling permits superluminal signal transmission. The principle of causality is not violated but the time duration between cause and effect can be shortened compared with an interaction exchange with velocity of light. This…

General Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Günter Nimtz

This is an attempt to find a hidden virtue in Tolman's paradox by showing that it can give rise to quantum superposition. We consider tachyon exchange between two particles and show that it can generate superposition of eigenstates…

General Physics · Physics 2011-04-14 Moses Fayngold

The refinement and specifications of time-energy uncertainty relations have shown that the experimentally observed phenomena of superluminal signaling are describable by such their form: $\Delta E\Delta\tau\geq\pi\hbar$, where both standard…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. E. Perel'man

We discuss the twin paradox or the clock paradox under the small velocity approximation of special relativity. In this paper the traveller twin of the standard twin parable sets out with a non-relativistic speed for the trip leaving behind…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. K. Ghosal , Saroj Nepal , Debarchana Das

The apparent superluminal propagation of electromagnetic signals seen in recent experiments is shown to be the result of simple and robust properties of relativistic field equations. Although the wave front of a signal passing through a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 A. D. Jackson , A. Lande , B. Lautrup

We consider the problem of deriving the no-signaling condition from the assumption that, as seen from a complexity theoretic perspective, the universe is not an exponential place. A fact that disallows such a derivation is the existence of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-05-20 R. Srikanth

The Bell-wave (B-wave) supposition has been introduced in an attempt to investigate Bell's conjecture (according to which "behind the scenes something is going faster than light"). Here it is shown, for the case of two entangled photons,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-04-13 Luiz Carlos Ryff

The phenomena known as the twin-paradox and time dilation, which are familiar effects in the special theory of relativity, have analogous counterparts in polarization optics. To show that, we present the concept of proper irradiance for a…

Optics · Physics 2024-08-27 Pierre Pellat-Finet

Hereby we inspect two-partite entanglement using thought experiment that relates properties of incoherently mixed states to the impossibility of faster-than-light (FTL) signalling. We show that if there appears a way to distinguish…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-27 Stanislav Filatov , Marcis Auzinsh

We analyse in detail the reshaping mechanism leading to apparently "superluminal" advancement of a wave packet traversing a classically forbidden region. In the coordinate representation, a barrier is shown to act as an effective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-20 D. Sokolovski , E. Akhmatskaya

The purpose of this letter is to show, on the one hand, how the so-called train paradox could be resolved directly without appealing to non-linear Lorentz transformations. The resolution is established in the most general case of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Azreg-Ainou

We present new results on the causality violations introduced by the rotating wave approximation commonly used in quantum optics and high-energy physics. We find that the causality violations and faster-than-light signalling induced by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Nicholas Funai , Eduardo Martin-Martinez

We analyze potential violations of causality in Unruh DeWitt-type detector models in relativistic quantum information. We proceed by first studying the relation between faster-than-light signaling and the causal factorization of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-05 José de Ramón , Maria Papageorgiou , Eduardo Martín-Martínez

There have been several experiments which hint at evidence for superluminal transport of electromagnetic energy through a material slab. On the theoretical side, it has appeared evident that acausal signals are indeed possible in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 V. Kidambi , A. Widom

Superluminal tunneling of light through a barrier has attracted broad interest in the last several decades. Despite the observation of such phenomena in various systems, it has been under intensive debate whether the transmitted light truly…

Optics · Physics 2021-04-06 Liang Wu , Zhiyong Wang , Kai Kang1 , Yi Fu , Chuanwei Li1 , Weili Zhang , Shuang Zhang

Solving special relativity paradoxes requires rigorous analysis of event timing, due to relative simultaneity in consequence of the Lorentz transformation. Since clock synchronisation is a convention in special theory of relativity, instead…

Classical Physics · Physics 2012-12-04 Jacek Ciborowski , Marta Wlodarczyk

We discuss some properties of Lorentz invariant theories which allow for superluminal motion. We show that, if signals are always sent forward in time, closed curves along which signals propagate can be formed. This leads to problems with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-06-28 Camille Bonvin , Chiara Caprini , Ruth Durrer