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: Received: 13 February 2022 / Approved: 17 February 2022 / Online: 17 February 2022 (13:39:48 CET)
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: Received: 23 March 2022 / Approved: 24 March 2022 / Online: 24 March 2022 (07:26:43 CET)
Version 3
: Received: 25 May 2023 / Approved: 26 May 2023 / Online: 26 May 2023 (07:57:28 CEST)
How to cite:
Şahin, İ. A dynamical approach to relativity: Desynchronization of clocks in rigid acceleration and gravitational redshift. Preprints2022, 2022020216. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202202.0216.v3
Şahin, İ. A dynamical approach to relativity: Desynchronization of clocks in rigid acceleration and gravitational redshift. Preprints 2022, 2022020216. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202202.0216.v3
Şahin, İ. A dynamical approach to relativity: Desynchronization of clocks in rigid acceleration and gravitational redshift. Preprints2022, 2022020216. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202202.0216.v3
APA Style
Şahin, İ. (2023). A dynamical approach to relativity: Desynchronization of clocks in rigid acceleration and gravitational redshift. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202202.0216.v3
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Şahin, İ. 2023 "A dynamical approach to relativity: Desynchronization of clocks in rigid acceleration and gravitational redshift" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202202.0216.v3
Abstract
In this paper, inspired by quantum field theory, or more specifically QED, we propose a dynamical model for relativity. By adopting the approach provided by this dynamical model, we provide a dynamical explanation for relativistic phenomena such as length contraction, time dilation and clock desynchronization. The result of the dynamical approach for clock desynchronization is especially interesting. Our dynamical approach exhausts the freedom for different clock synchronizations on frames accelerated from an initial reference frame, which is allowed by Einstein’s principle approach. Furthermore, our dynamical approach arrives at the interesting conclusion that Einstein’s equivalence principle and gravitational redshift are necessary to explain special relativistic clock desynchronization. This result shows that special relativity by itself is an incomplete theory. If our dynamical model assumptions are assumed to be valid at a fundamental level, it implies some modifications to quantum field theory and general relativity via the equivalence principle. These modifications have been discussed.
Keywords
Dynamical approach to relativity; Relativity of simultaneity; Accelerated observers; Gravitational redshift
Subject
Physical Sciences, Theoretical Physics
Copyright:
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Commenter: İNANÇ ŞAHİN
Commenter's Conflict of Interests: Author