Relativity Matters: The Acceleration Frontier
Event details
| Date | 11.12.2017 |
| Hour | 16:15 › 17:15 |
| Speaker | Prof. Johann Rafelski, University of Arizona |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Rescuing Galileo's relativity principle, Einstein conceived the framework of Relativity Theory, solving the problem of gravity, a sub-domain of Relativity. Relativity, however, is still incomplete. The unsolved effort to understand forces in general sometimes causes abuse of principles on which our understanding of effects such as the relativistic Doppler effect and the Lorentz-Fitzgerald Body contraction relies. The question of how a body "knows" that it is accelerated is the riddle. Among more practical relativity challenges I describe the effort to formulate covariantly the Stern-Gerlach deflection and radiation reaction forces. Here we meet the strong acceleration physics frontier of classical and quantum physics where the quantum vacuum, also known as Einstein's non-material ether, can be probed.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- Section de Physique
Contact
- Prof. Giorgio Margaritondo