https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-023-03713-y
Regular Article
Gravitational time advancement effect in Bumblebee gravity for Earth bound systems
1
Zel’dovich International Center for Astrophysics, M. Akmullah Bashkir State Pedagogical University, 3A, October Revolution Street, 450008, Ufa, RB, Russia
2
Institute of Molecule and Crystal Physics, Ufa Federal Research Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Prospekt Oktyabrya 151, 450075, Ufa, RB, Russia
3
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Bashkir State University, 47A, Lenin Street, 453103, Sterlitamak, RB, Russia
4
High Energy Cosmic Ray Research Center, University of North Bengal, 734 013, Darjeeling, WB, India
Received:
1
September
2022
Accepted:
17
January
2023
Published online:
28
January
2023
This paper is a novel application of the new effect of gravitational time advancement or negative time delay, first predicted for static black holes (spin 
), that can be regarded as complementary to the well-known effect of positive Shapiro time delay. We shall extend the Shapiro time delay formalism up to third PPN order using the recently proposed spinning (
) black hole solution of the Lorentz symmetry breaking (LSB) Bumblebee gravity that is believed to reveal signatures of quantum gravity at low energies. Adopting two practical examples of signal propagation along Earth–Moon and Earth–Satellite configurations, we shall calculate the influence of the Bumblebee parameter 
on time advancement using terms up to the second PPN order 
and 
as the Bumblebee solution is valid only up to first order in a. It is shown that there is a critical radial distance 
above the Earth, where the Shapiro delay vanishes, and beyond the delay becomes negative, i.e., time advancement begins to set in, leading to the intriguing consequence that the measured LLR distance to Moon or any Satellite becomes less than the zeroth order Euclidean distance. It is shown that the LSB correction arises from the conical geometry of the massless Bumblebee space-time leading to upper bounds on the correction to the zeroth order Euclidean time interval as 
(ns) and to time advancement as 
(ns), both estimates based on the bound on corresponding to the Cassini spacecraft experiment. We shall also briefly touch upon the feasibility of direct experimental detection of the advancement effect.
G. Y. Tuleganova, R. Kh. Karimov, A. A. Potapov, A. Bhadra and K. K. Nandi have contributed equally to this work.
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