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Modern Tests of Special Relativity
Physics Today, 1987From our perspective one hundred years after the fact, the null result of the Michelson-Morley ether-drift experiment clearly marked the beginning of the end for the Newtonian notions of absolute space and time. At the time, however, it took 20 years of work by H. A. Lorentz, Henri Poincaré and others for most physicists to come to the same conclusion.
Mark P. Haugan, Clifford M. Will
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Experimental test of special relativity by laser spectroscopy [PDF]
Hyperfine Interactions, 2006 The Doppler-free laser-spectroscopic frequency measurement of Doppler-shifted optical lines in forward and backward direction of a fast ion beam permits a sensitive test of the relativistic Doppler-formula and, hence, the relativistic time dilation factor γ SR=(1−ν 2/c 2)−1/2.
G. Ewald +16 more
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Significance of precision tests of special relativity
Physics Letters A, 1993Abstract Recent experiments using two-photon absorption and phase comparison of masers can set bounds on Lorentz-violating preferred-frame alternatives to special relativity, but cannot give empirical knowledge concerning the one-way speed of light, since the latter depends on the synchronisation convention.
I. Vetharaniam, G. E. Stedman
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Improved optical test of special relativity
2003 European Quantum Electronics Conference. EQEC 2003 (IEEE Cat No.03TH8665), 2003A new Michelson-Morley (MM) experiment that is based on a one-year comparison of the frequencies /spl nu//sub x/ and /spl nu//sub y/ of two lasers stabilized to crossed cryogenic optical resonators (CORES) at 1064 nm. The experiment relies on a highly developed laser frequency stabilization scheme: an automatic beam positioning system continuously ...
S. Schiller +4 more
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Test theories of special relativity
General Relativity and Gravitation, 1995We review the Edwards transformation, and investigate the Robertson transformation and the Mansouri-Sexl (ms) transformation. It is shown that thems transformation is a generalization of the Robertson transformation, just as the Edwards transformation is a generalization of the Lorentz transformation.
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Modern Optical Tests of Special Relativity
2007 European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and the International Quantum Electronics Conference, 2007In this paper, the authors give a detailed report on a specific such clock comparison, which can be viewed as a modern descendant of the classical Michelson-Morley experiment testing the isotropy of the speed of light.
A. Senger +3 more
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Proposed satellite test of special relativity
Physical Review A, 1995A test of the second postulate of special relativity, the universality of the speed of light, using the Experiment on Timing Ranging and Atmospheric Sounding payload to be flown on board a terrestrial satellite is proposed. The propagation time of a light signal transmitted from one point to another without reflection would be measured directly by ...
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NEW OPTICAL TESTS OF SPECIAL RELATIVITY
Laser Spectroscopy, 2004Special Relativity (SR) is a fundamental theory that underlies all established models of the forces of nature, from the gravitational and electromagnetic to the weak and strong nuclear forces. Violations of SR, however, seem to be a common feature of many proposed models of quantum gravity, like string theory and loop gravity.
Sven Herrmann +4 more
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