Special Relativity Will it Survive the Next 101 Years? /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ehlers, Jürgen (Editor), Lämmerzahl, Claus (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 702
• Subjects: Physics.; Quantum field theory.; String theory.; Elementary particles (Physics).; Quantum Field Theories, String Theory.; Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.
• Physical Description: XVI, 533 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783540345237
• ISSN: 0075-8450 ;

After a century of successes, physicists still feel the need to probe the limits of the validity of theories based on special relativity. Canonical approaches to quantum gravity, non-commutative geometry, string theory and unification scenarios predict tiny violations of Lorentz invariance at high energies. The present book, based on a recent seminar devoted to such frontier problems, contains reviews of the foundations of special relativity and the implications of Poincaré invariance as well as comprehensive accounts of experimental results and proposed tests. The book addresses, besides researchers in the field, everyone interested in the conceptual and empirical foundations of our knowledge about space, time and matter.