New perspectives on Einstein's E = Mc2
Language: English Publication details: World Scientific Publishing 2019 New JerseyDescription: xi, 185pISBN:- 9789813237704
- 530.11 K56n
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530.11 IN8A APPROACHES TO NUMERICAL RELATIVITY | 530.11 K528G GENERAL RELATIVITY | 530.11 K558 GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY | 530.11 K56n New perspectives on Einstein's E = Mc2 | 530.11 K823i Introduction to relativity | 530.11 K838S SPACETIME AND GRAVITATION | 530.11 K868H HIDING IN THE MIRROR |
Einstein's energy-momentum relation is applicable to particles of all speeds, including the particle at rest and the massless particle moving with the speed of light. If one formula or formalism is applicable to all speeds, we say it is 'Lorentz-covariant.' As for the internal space-time symmetries, there does not appear to be a clear way to approach this problem. For a particle at rest, there are three spin degrees of freedom. For a massless particle, there are helicity and gauge degrees of freedom. The aim of this book is to present one Lorentz-covariant picture of these two different space-time symmetries. Using the same mathematical tool, it is possible to give a Lorentz-covariant picture of Gell-Mann's quark model for the proton at rest and Feynman's parton model for the fast-moving proton. The mathematical formalism for these aspects of the Lorentz covariance is based on two-by-two matrices and harmonic oscillators which serve as two basic scientific languages for many different branches of physics. It is pointed out that the formalism presented in this book is applicable to various aspects of optical sciences of current interest.
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