Necessity of acceleration-induced nonlocality

DOI10.1002/ANDP.201010464MaRDI QIDQ3084635zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors B. Mashhoon

Publication date 25 March 2011

Published in Annalen der Physik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.4150

zbMATH Keywords

nonlocalityrelativityaccelerated observers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Special relativity (83A05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Geometric optics (78A05)

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to explain clearly why nonlocality must be an essential part of the theory of relativity. In the standard local version of this theory, Lorentz invariance is extended to accelerated observers by assuming that they are pointwise inertial. This locality postulate is exact when dealing with phenomena involving classical point particles and rays of radiation, but breaks down for electromagnetic fields, as field properties in general cannot be measured instantaneously. The problem is corrected in nonlocal relativity by supplementing the locality postulate with a certain average over the past world line of the observer.

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