https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/i2014-14102-7
Regular Article
Conservative relativity principle: Logical ground and analysis of relevant experiments
1
Department of Physics, Belarus State University, Minsk, Belarus
2
Okan University, Eskisehir, Turkey
3
Institute for Nuclear Problems, Minsk, Belarus
* e-mail: khol123@yahoo.com
Received:
29
January
2014
Revised:
21
March
2014
Accepted:
7
April
2014
Published online:
30
May
2014
We suggest a new relativity principle, which asserts the impossibility to distinguish the state of rest and the state of motion at the constant velocity of a system, if no work is done to the system in question during its motion. We suggest calling this new rule as “conservative relativity principle” (CRP). In the case of an empty space, CRP is reduced to the Einstein special relativity principle. We also show that CRP is compatible with the general relativity principle. One of important implications of CRP is the dependence of the proper time of a charged particle on the electric potential at its location. In the present paper we consider the relevant experimental facts gathered up to now, where the latter effect can be revealed. We show that in atomic physics the introduction of this effect furnishes a better convergence between theory and experiment than that provided by the standard approach. Finally, we reanalyze the Mössbauer experiments in rotating systems and show that the obtained recently puzzling deviation of the relative energy shift between emission and absorption lines from the relativistic prediction can be explained by the CRP.
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