Selected Honourable Mentions from the Annual Essay Competition of the Gravity Research Foundation for the Year 2008No Access

IS PHYSICS ASKING FOR A NEW KINEMATICS?

R. ALDROVANDI

Instituto de Física Teórica, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rua Pamplona 145, 01405-900 São Paulo, Brazil

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J. G. PEREIRA

Instituto de Física Teórica, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rua Pamplona 145, 01405-900 São Paulo, Brazil

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218271808013972Cited by:11 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

It is discussed whether some of the consistency problems of present day physics could be solved by replacing special relativity, whose underlying kinematics is ruled by the Poincaré group, with de Sitter relativity, whose underlying kinematics is ruled by the de Sitter group. In contrast to ordinary special relativity, which seems to fail at the Planck scale, this new relativity is "universal," in the sense that it holds at all energy scales.

This essay received an "honorable mention" in the 2008 Essay Competition of the Gravity Research Foundation.

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