Category:
Research Papers
Sub-Category:
Relativity Theory
Date Published:
May 8, 2023
Keywords:
photon motion in vacuum, Lorentz Transformation, phase difference in synchronization, doubly relative velocity, Lorentz symmetry breaking, scope of special relativity, incompleteness of special relativity.
Abstract:
Local simultaneity (phase difference in relativistic synchronization) is used in this paper to construct a brief argument that challenges some basic results of special relativity. The essence of the argument consists in analyzing the motion of photons emitted inside two vacuum tubes, which in their proper reference frame are arranged in divergent directions forming a V. The progressive divergence of the trajectories of the photons causes a continuous increase of the phase difference in synchronization when the motion is observed from another inertial reference frame. It is proved here that from this reference frame, and exclusively due to the Lorentz Transformation, one of the photons has to be observed with an accelerated motion (!) The consequences are dramatic for special relativity: the motion of photons could only be analyzed in the proper reference frame of their corresponding emitting sources, which leaves out of the scope of special relativity the analysis of the motion of practically all the photons in the universe.
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