TY - JOUR
T1 - Thim’s experiment and exact rotational space-time transformations
AU - Hsu, Leonardo
AU - Hsu, Jong Ping
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014, Società Italiana di Fisica and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
PY - 2014/1/1
Y1 - 2014/1/1
N2 - Thim measured the transverse Doppler shift using a system consisting of a stationary antenna and pickup, in addition to a number of intermediate antennas mounted on the rim of a rotating disk. No such shift was detected, although the experiment should have had enough sensitivity to measure it, as predicted by the Lorentz transformations. However, using the Lorentz transformations to analyze the results of experiments involving circular motion, while commonly done, is inappropriate because such an analysis involves non-inertial frames, which are outside the range of validity of special relativity. In this paper, we re-analyze Thim's experiment using exact rotational space-time transformations, finding that his null result is consistent with theoretical predictions.
AB - Thim measured the transverse Doppler shift using a system consisting of a stationary antenna and pickup, in addition to a number of intermediate antennas mounted on the rim of a rotating disk. No such shift was detected, although the experiment should have had enough sensitivity to measure it, as predicted by the Lorentz transformations. However, using the Lorentz transformations to analyze the results of experiments involving circular motion, while commonly done, is inappropriate because such an analysis involves non-inertial frames, which are outside the range of validity of special relativity. In this paper, we re-analyze Thim's experiment using exact rotational space-time transformations, finding that his null result is consistent with theoretical predictions.
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U2 - 10.1140/epjp/i2014-14016-4
DO - 10.1140/epjp/i2014-14016-4
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84919919042
SN - 2190-5444
VL - 129
SP - 1
EP - 4
JO - European Physical Journal Plus
JF - European Physical Journal Plus
IS - 1
M1 - 16
ER -