Planck scale still safe from stellar images

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/20/14/313MaRDI QIDQ4457674zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors D. H. Coule

Publication date 25 March 2004

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0302333

zbMATH Keywords

diffractionstellar interferometersvan Cittert-Zernike theoremwavefront interference

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Observational and experimental questions in relativity and gravitational theory (83B05) Astronomy and astrophysics (85A99)

Abstract: The recent paper of Lieu and Hillman [1] that a possible, (birefringence like) phase difference ambiguity coming from Planck effects would alter stellar images of distant sources is questioned. Instead for {em division of wavefront} interference and diffraction phenomena, initial (lateral) coherence is developed simply by propagation of rays (cf. van Cittert-Zernike theorem). This case is strongly immune to quantum gravity influences that could tend to reduce phase coherence. The phase ambiguity, if actually present, could reduce any underlying polarization of the light rays.

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