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Extending Special Relativity to Superluminal Motion

General Physics 2010-02-10 v2

Abstract

Experiments done with single photon in the early 1990's produced a surprising result: that single photon pass through a photon tunnel barrier with a group velocity faster than the vacuum speed of light. Recently, a series of experiments revealed that electromagnetic wave was able to travel at a group velocity faster than cc. These phenomena have been observed in dispersive media. We think all particles can be divided into three kinds in nature: The first kind of particle is its velocity in the range of 0v<c0\leq v < c, e.g. electron, atom and so on. The second kind of particle is its velocity in the range of 0v<cm0\leq v < c_{m}, e.g. photon. The third kind of particle is its velocity in the range of cv<cmc\leq v < c_{m} (cmc_{m} is the maximum velocity in universe), e.g. tachyon. The first kind of particle is described by the special relativity. In this paper, we give some new kinematic and dynamic equations to describe the second and third kinds particles.

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@article{arxiv.0909.2727,
  title  = {Extending Special Relativity to Superluminal Motion},
  author = {Xiang-Yao Wu and Xiao-Jing Liu and Bai-Jun Zhang and Yi-Heng Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0909.2727},
  year   = {2010}
}

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16 pages

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