scholarly journals Improved constraints on isotropic shift and anisotropies of the speed of light using rotating cryogenic sapphire oscillators

2010 ◽  
Vol 82 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A. Hohensee ◽  
Paul L. Stanwix ◽  
Michael E. Tobar ◽  
Stephen R. Parker ◽  
David F. Phillips ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Speed Of Light ◽  
Isotropic Shift

CAVITY CONSTRAINTS ON ISOTROPIC SHIFT AND ANISOTROPIES OF THE SPEED OF LIGHT

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.L. STANWIX ◽  
S.R. PARKER ◽  
M.E. TOBAR ◽  
M.A. HOHENSEE ◽  
D.F. PHILLIPS ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Speed Of Light ◽  
Isotropic Shift

Oscillating Test of the Isotropic Shift of the Speed of Light

2012 ◽  
Vol 108 (26) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred N. Baynes ◽  
Michael E. Tobar ◽  
Andre N. Luiten
Keyword(s):  
Speed Of Light ◽  
Isotropic Shift

The Uncertainty Principle Derived by The Finite Transmission Speed of Light and Information

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piero Chiarelli
Keyword(s):  
Uncertainty Principle ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Uncertainty Relations ◽  
Speed Of Light ◽  
Energy Fluctuation ◽  
Hydrodynamic Analogy ◽  
Non Local ◽  
Minimum Uncertainty ◽  
Quantum Hydrodynamic ◽  
Transmission Speed

This work shows that in the frame of the stochastic generalization of the quantum hydrodynamic analogy (QHA) the uncertainty principle is fully compatible with the postulate of finite transmission speed of light and information. The theory shows that the measurement process performed in the large scale classical limit in presence of background noise, cannot have a duration smaller than the time need to the light to travel the distance up to which the quantum non-local interaction extend itself. The product of the minimum measuring time multiplied by the variance of energy fluctuation due to presence of stochastic noise shows to lead to the minimum uncertainty principle. The paper also shows that the uncertainty relations can be also derived if applied to the indetermination of position and momentum of a particle of mass m in a quantum fluctuating environment.

A Relativistic Newtonian Mechanics Predicts with Precision the Results of Recent Neutrino-Velocity Experiments

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1032-1035 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramzi Suleiman
Keyword(s):  
Null Hypothesis ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Newtonian Mechanics ◽  
Speed Of Light ◽  
Symmetry Principle ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The One ◽  
Complete Collapse

The research on quasi-luminal neutrinos has sparked several experimental studies for testing the "speed of light limit" hypothesis. Until today, the overall evidence favors the "null" hypothesis, stating that there is no significant difference between the observed velocities of light and neutrinos. Despite numerous theoretical models proposed to explain the neutrinos behavior, no attempt has been undertaken to predict the experimentally produced results. This paper presents a simple novel extension of Newton's mechanics to the domain of relativistic velocities. For a typical neutrino-velocity experiment, the proposed model is utilized to derive a general expression for . Comparison of the model's prediction with results of six neutrino-velocity experiments, conducted by five collaborations, reveals that the model predicts all the reported results with striking accuracy. Because in the proposed model, the direction of the neutrino flight matters, the model's impressive success in accounting for all the tested data, indicates a complete collapse of the Lorentz symmetry principle in situation involving quasi-luminal particles, moving in two opposite directions. This conclusion is support by previous findings, showing that an identical Sagnac effect to the one documented for radial motion, occurs also in linear motion.

One Step Short of Life

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karel Schrijver
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Water ◽  
Radio Telescopes ◽  
Speed Of Light ◽  
Extraterrestrial Life ◽  
True Nature ◽  
One Step ◽  
New Strategies ◽  
Present Focus

This chapter briefly reviews some the challenges encountered in the search for extraterrestrial life. So far, no signs of extraterrestrial life have been found. The search started with radio telescopes, looking for technology-based civilizations, but new strategies have emerged that take on the primary challenges in this search: the enormous distances to exoplanets and the question of the true nature of life. The author outlines the development of new tools for the search, and why the present focus is on Earth-sized exoplanets with a potential for liquid water on their surfaces. Not having been visited by an alien civilization presents us with a paradox: if life develops as quickly elsewhere as on Earth, then why have we not been contacted? Is the speed of light too slow to cross interstellar distances, is life intrinsically rare, or should we conclude that civilizations are intrinsically short-lived?

The Nature of Light

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank S. Levin
Keyword(s):  
Wave Phenomenon ◽  
Electromagnetic Waves ◽  
Speed Of Light ◽  
Particle Theory ◽  
Christiaan Huygens ◽  
Slit Experiment

Chapter 2 reviews answers to the question of what is light, starting with the ancient Greeks and ending in 1900 with the wave concept of Maxwell’s electrodynamics. For some ancient Greeks, light consisted of atoms emitted from surface of the object, whereas for others it was fire that either entered into or was emitted by eyes, although the latter possibility was effectively eliminated around the year 1000. Competing proposals well after then were that light is either a wave phenomenon or consists of particles, with Isaac Newton’s corpuscular (particle) theory prevailing by the end of the 1600s over the wave concept championed by Christiaan Huygens, who published the first estimate of the speed of light. In the early 1800s, Thomas Young’s two-slit experiment proved that light was a wave, a concept codified and firmly grounded through Maxwell’s theory of electromagnetic waves.

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