• predictions of special relativity. Collections of various tests were given by Jakob Laub, Zhang, Mattingly, Clifford Will, and Roberts/Schleif. Special relativity...
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  • The theory of relativity usually encompasses two interrelated physics theories by Albert Einstein: special relativity and general relativity, proposed...
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  • Tests of general relativity serve to establish observational evidence for the theory of general relativity. The first three tests, proposed by Albert...
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  • Test theories of special relativity give a mathematical framework for analyzing results of experiments to verify special relativity. An experiment to...
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    In physics, the special theory of relativity, or special relativity for short, is a scientific theory of the relationship between space and time. In Albert...
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  • The history of special relativity consists of many theoretical results and empirical findings obtained by Albert A. Michelson, Hendrik Lorentz, Henri...
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    Michelson–Morley experiment (category Tests of special relativity)
    Michelson–Morley type experiments form one of the fundamental tests of special relativity. Physics theories of the 19th century assumed that just as surface...
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  • framework of special relativity, the Maxwell equations have the same form in all inertial frames of reference. In the framework of general relativity, the...
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    Hafele–Keating experiment (category Tests of special relativity)
    in many tests of special relativity, such as the Ives–Stilwell experiment and others. Considering the Hafele–Keating experiment in a frame of reference...
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    Hughes–Drever experiment (category Tests of special relativity)
    achieved makes this kind of experiment one of the most accurate confirmations of relativity (see also Tests of special relativity). Giuseppe Cocconi and...
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    Modern searches for Lorentz violation (category Tests of special relativity)
    the predictions of the standard model of particle physics. To assess and predict possible violations, test theories of special relativity and effective...
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  • Doubly special relativity (DSR) – also called deformed special relativity or, by some[who?], extra-special relativity – is a modified theory of special relativity...
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  • The theory of special relativity was initially developed in 1905 by Albert Einstein. However, other interpretations of special relativity have been developed...
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    predicted by special relativity is often verified by means of particle lifetime experiments. According to special relativity, the rate of a clock C traveling...
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    design and theoretical evaluation of collision experiments in particle accelerators. See also Tests of special relativity for a general overview. In classical...
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    Kaufmann–Bucherer–Neumann experiments (category Tests of special relativity)
    for general information see Tests of special relativity. In 1896, Henri Becquerel discovered radioactive decay in a variety of chemical elements. Subsequently...
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    Kennedy–Thorndike experiment (category Tests of special relativity)
    is a modified form of the Michelson–Morley experimental procedure, testing special relativity. The modification is to make one arm of the classical Michelson–Morley...
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    General relativity Introduction to the mathematics of general relativity Special relativity History of general relativity Tests of general relativity Numerical...
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  • the motion of such an aether, but it was never found despite numerous experimental tests of Lorentz invariance (see tests of special relativity). Also attempts...
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  • to special relativity, see tests of special relativity. According to simple emission theory, light thrown off by an object should move at a speed of c...
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    Ives–Stilwell experiment (category Tests of special relativity)
    Kennedy–Thorndike experiments it forms one of the fundamental tests of special relativity theory. Other tests confirming the relativistic Doppler effect...
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  • The word "mass" has two meanings in special relativity: invariant mass (also called rest mass) is an invariant quantity which is the same for all observers...
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  • length is 19 cm of air and 0.3 mm of Lucite, and for 4.4 GeV, 1.7 m in air, and 1.4 mm in carbon. Special relativity predicts that the speed of light in vacuum...
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    development of the theory of general relativity. The strong form requires Einstein's form to work for stellar objects. Highly precise experimental tests of the...
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    advent of Albert Einstein's theory of special relativity. Einstein later pointed out the importance of the experiment for special relativity, in which...
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  • Precision tests of QED Tests of special relativity Tests of relativistic energy and momentum Modern searches for Lorentz violation Measurements of neutrino...
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    thereafter became a central idea in the special theory of relativity. According to the special theory of relativity introduced by Albert Einstein, it is...
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  • Scientific theory (category Epistemology of science)
    PMID 9501161. See Tests of special relativity. Also, for example: Sidney Coleman, Sheldon L. Glashow, Cosmic Ray and Neutrino Tests of Special Relativity, Phys....
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  • invariant special relativity is the speculative idea that the fundamental symmetry group of spacetime is the indefinite orthogonal group SO(4,1), that of de...
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  • ballistic theory of light, was a competing theory for the special theory of relativity, explaining the results of the Michelson–Morley experiment of 1887. Emission...
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