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SUMMARY:Relativity Matters: The Acceleration Frontier
DTSTART:20171211T161500
DTEND:20171211T171500
DTSTAMP:20260406T194636Z
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Johann Rafelski\, University of Arizona\nRescuing Galile
 o's relativity principle\, Einstein conceived the framework of Relativity 
 Theory\, solving the problem of gravity\, a sub-domain of Relativity. Rela
 tivity\, however\, is still incomplete. The unsolved effort to understand 
 forces in general sometimes causes abuse of principles on which our unders
 tanding of effects such as the relativistic Doppler effect and the Lorentz
 -Fitzgerald Body contraction relies. The question of how a body "knows" th
 at it is accelerated is the riddle. Among more practical relativity challe
 nges I describe the effort to formulate covariantly the Stern-Gerlach defl
 ection and radiation reaction forces. Here we meet the strong acceleration
  physics frontier of classical and quantum physics where the quantum vacuu
 m\, also known as Einstein's non-material ether\, can be probed.\n 
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