Possible Abnormality In Fundamental Building Block Of Einstein’s Theory Of Relativity
Physicists at Indiana University have developed a promising new way to identify a possible abnormality in a fundamental building block of Einstein’s theory of relativity known as “Lorentz invariance.” If confirmed, the abnormality would disprove the basic tenet that the laws of physics remain the same for any two objects traveling at a constant speed or rotated relative to one another.
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The new violations change the gravitational properties of objects depending on their motion and composition. Objects on the Earth are always moving differently in different seasons because the Earth revolves around the Sun, so apples could fall faster in some seasons than others. Also, different objects like apples and oranges may fall differently.
I find it amusing that there are a bunch of relativity cranks who claim that relativity is treated as dogma. The reality is that it isn’t all that hard to find scientists devising tests of relativity of various sorts, whether it’s testing the predictions of GR or checking for anomalies such as this.
Of course, thus far whenever someone has devised a clever test like this, we’ve found that relativity is correct.
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/9148/title/Einstein_Unruffled_Relativity_passes_stringent_new_tests
GR is still empirically undefeated.
400+ years of Equivalence Principle testing since Galileo and Stevin ~1585 (and Philoponus ~500 AD), the absent Nordtvedt effect re lunar laser ranging, plus PSR J1903+0327 (arxiv/0805.2396) eliminate all observables’ differential EP effects to ~10^(-14) relative. For all that, nobody knows whether left and right shoes locally vacuum free fall identically. If they do not, GR (postulated) and peturbational string theory (through BRST invariance) are both falsified. Would you like a Prize for that?
Massed sector isotropic vacuum is a transactionally dreadful postulate. The whole of physics stumbles and hiccoughs over mirror symmetry-breaking while the universe is chiral SOP. Parity is not a Noetherian symmetry for being discontinuous. Covariance with respect to reflection in space and time is not required by the Poincaré group of Special Relativity or the Einstein group of General Relativity. Single crystal quartz commercially grows as enantiomorphic space groups P3(1)21 (dextral screw axes) or P3(2)21 (sinistral screw axes). One parity Eötvös experiment opposing extremal right and left shoes will tell you.
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/qz4.pdf
Do the experiment