On the violation of the invariance of the light speed in theoretical investigations

In this review, we analyze some of the most important theoretical attempts to challenge the invariance of the light speed postulated by the Special Theory of Relativity (STR). Most of those studies, however, show that STR has great stability with respect to various kinds of modifications in its axio...

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Published inModern physics letters A Vol. 32; no. 36; p. 1730033
Main Authors Chubykalo, A., Espinoza, A., Gonzalez-Sanchez, A., Gutiérrez Rodríguez, A.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Singapore World Scientific Publishing Company 30.11.2017
World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte., Ltd
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ISSN0217-7323
1793-6632
DOI10.1142/S0217732317300336

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Summary:In this review, we analyze some of the most important theoretical attempts to challenge the invariance of the light speed postulated by the Special Theory of Relativity (STR). Most of those studies, however, show that STR has great stability with respect to various kinds of modifications in its axioms. This stability probably is due to the fact that in these modifications there is no so much a violation of the physical postulate of the invariance of the speed of light, as its mathematical expansion in the form of making resort to a more general affine space. In these modifications, we refer to more general transformation groups, including scale transformation of the speed of light and time c ′ = γ c , t ′ = γ − 1 t .
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ISSN:0217-7323
1793-6632
DOI:10.1142/S0217732317300336