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Re:Still no violation of Lorentz symmetry, despite strongest... by dcudjejxice on Friday December 23, 2016 @04:19PM (#13247275)
Can you please explain or provide a link? This sounds fascinating.
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Re:Still no violation of Lorentz symmetry, despite strongest... by cyphar on Friday December 23, 2016 @06:35PM (#13247821)
This was covered in my undergraduate (second-year) SR course. The idea is that if you accept that Maxwell's equations apply in all inertial frames (speed of light is constant) and that causality is conserved in all frames, the result is that Newtonian mechanics requires adjustments for effects that are called "special relativity".
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Re:Still no violation of Lorentz symmetry, despite strongest... by hansen on Friday December 23, 2016 @04:28PM (#13247307)
http://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.523436

ED: This is the starting point of the Causal Set [1] program. Don’t ask me for details, I don’t know any. But the wikipedia article looks interesting. Seems they are trying to figure out how causality restricts models with some level of discreteness.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal_sets

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