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In a recent paper [Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 043201 (2020)] (Ref.1) Liao et al. propose a theory of the interferometric photoemission delay based on the concepts of the photoelectron phase and photoelectron effective mass. The present comment…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-26 E. E. Krasovskii , R. O. Kuzian

It is currently believed that light quantum or the quantization of light energy is beyond classical physics and the picture of wave-particle duality, which was criticized by Einstein but attracted a number of experimental researches, is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Wei-Long She

The Lorentz law of force is the fifth pillar of classical electrodynamics, the other four being Maxwell's macroscopic equations. The Lorentz law is the universal expression of the force exerted by electromagnetic fields on a volume…

General Physics · Physics 2012-05-10 Masud Mansuripur

We consider the scattering of lightlike matter in the presence of a heavy scalar object (such as the Sun or a Schwarzschild black hole). By treating general relativity as an effective field theory we directly compute the nonanalytic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-20 N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , John F. Donoghue , Barry R. Holstein , Ludovic Planté , Pierre Vanhove

That gravitation can be understood as purely metric phenomenon depends crucially on the validity of a number of hypotheses which are summarised by the Einstein Equivalence Principle, the least well tested part of which being the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 Domenico Giulini

This work continues earlier investigations towards constructing a consistent new Quantum Field Theory with fundamental mass $M$, defining a hypothetical but universal scale in the region of ultrahigh energies. From a theoretical point of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Rustam M. Ibadov

Mass is an important concept in classical mechanics, which regards a particle as a corpuscular object. But according to wave-particle duality, we know a free particle can behave like a wave. Is there a wave property that corresponds to the…

General Physics · Physics 2016-12-30 Donald C. Chang

We demonstrate that full description of both electromagnetic and gravitational radiation from massless particles lies outside the scope of classical theory. Synchrotron radiation from the hypothetical massless charge in quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-16 D. V. Gal'tsov

A dark photon may kinetically mix with the Standard Model photon, leading to observable cosmological signatures. The mixing is resonantly enhanced when the dark photon mass matches the primordial plasma frequency, which depends sensitively…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-11 Andrea Caputo , Hongwan Liu , Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , Joshua T. Ruderman

The mass-energy formula E=mc^2 is thought to be derived by Einstein from special relativity. The present study shows that since the formula has also been derived from classical physics by Einstein, it is not an exclusively relativistic…

General Physics · Physics 2015-10-02 Qing-Ping Ma

The equivalence principle in combination with the special relativistic equivalence between mass and energy, $E=mc^2$, is one of the cornerstones of general relativity. However, for composite systems a long-standing result in general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-22 Magdalena Zych , Łukasz Rudnicki , Igor Pikovski

For several decades there has been no breakthrough in fundamental physics as revolutionary as relativity and quantum physics despite the amazing advancement of applied physics and technology. By discussing several examples of what physics…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2010-01-26 Vesselin Petkov

The apparent discrepancy between the bending of light predicted by the equivalence principle and its corresponding value in general relativity is resolved by evaluating the deflection of light with respect to a direction that is parallel…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Rafael Ferraro

The properties of light in the presence of electromagnetic and gravitational fields are compared. Once one takes account of the fact that clock rates vary with distance from a massive object, it is argued that in an absolute sense light…

General Physics · Physics 2009-04-22 Robert J. Buenker

An explanation for superluminal phenomena based on wave-particle duality of photons is suggested. A single photon may be regarded as a wave packet, whose spatial extension is its coherence volume. As a photon propagates as a wave train in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-15 Hai-Long Zhao

The fact that mass has an effect on surrounding space is the first essential element of general relativity. This paper unifies this mass/space distinction of general relativity with Newtonian gravity at a subatomic scale and with reported…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shantilal G. Goradia

In this article we propose a new relativistic paradox concerning the absorption of a photon by a hydrogen atom. We show that the actual cause of the paradox is one of the hypotheses of Bohr model; therefore, in order to solve the paradox,…

General Physics · Physics 2013-10-15 Carlo Maria Scandolo

The effects of a nonzero photon rest mass can be incorporated into electromagnetism in a simple way using the Proca equations. In this vein, two interesting implications regarding the possible existence of a massive photon in nature, i.e.,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-14 Antonio Accioly , José Helayël-Neto , Eslley Scatena

Physical phenomena caused by particle's moving faster than light in a space with multifractal time with dimension close to integer ($d_{t}=1+\epsilon(r(t),t), |\epsilon| \ll 1$ - time is almost homogeneous and almost isotropic) are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Leonid Ya. Kobelev

There are countless examples in the history of science that not only were the laws of physics often incomplete and more limited in their domain of validity than was realized, but at times they missed the mark completely. Despite this, our…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2017-01-26 Mario Rabinowitz