Ways to resolve Selleri's paradox
Selleri's paradox, based on an analysis of rotating frames, appears to show that the speed of light in an inertial system is not normally isotropic. This in turn seems at odds with the second postulate of special relativity requiring a universal light speed in inertial systems. First, it is dem...
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Veröffentlicht in: | American journal of physics 2012-12, Vol.80 (12), p.1061-1066 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Selleri's paradox, based on an analysis of rotating frames, appears to show that the speed of light in an inertial system is not normally isotropic. This in turn seems at odds with the second postulate of special relativity requiring a universal light speed in inertial systems. First, it is demonstrated how to circumvent Selleri's argument using Einstein synchronization in rotating frames. Then the nature of Selleri's result is exposed: it simply corresponds to the adoption of a synchronization procedure different from Einstein's. In this scheme, anisotropic one-way speeds of light by no means contradict special relativity. |
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ISSN: | 0002-9505 1943-2909 |
DOI: | 10.1119/1.4755950 |