General flat four-dimensional world pictures and clock systems |
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Authors: | J. P. Hsu J. A. Underwood |
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Affiliation: | 1. Space Sciences Laboratory, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama 3. Center for Particle Theory, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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Abstract: | We explore the mathematical structure and the physical implications of a general four-dimensional symmetry framework which is consistent with the Poincaré—Einstein principle of relativity for physical laws and with experiments. In particular, we discuss a four-dimensional framework in which all observers in different frames use one and the same grid of clocks. The general framework includes special relativity and a recently proposed new four-dimensional symmetry with a nonuniversal light speed as two special simple cases. The connection between the properties of light propagation and the convention concerning clock systems is also discussed, and is seen to be nonunique within the four-dimensional framework. |
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