## segunda-feira, outubro 31, 2011

Time-of-flight between a Source and a Detector observed from
a Satellite

Ronald A.J. van Elburg

(Submitted on 12 Oct 2011 (v1), last revised 17 Oct 2011 (this version, v3))

Source/Fonte: Technology Review

Michelson and Morley showed that an interference pattern is reference-frame independent. However, the distance between a particle's production and detection site is reference-frame dependent due to Lorentz contraction and detector movement. For the OPERA experiment detector movement in the satellite reference frame leads to corrections which can account for most of the $\pm 60$ ns discrepancy between expected and observed time of flight.

Comments: 4 pages; Version 3: Rephrased large parts of the paper. I try to respond to latest developments on my website

Subjects: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)

MSC classes: 83B05

Cite as: arXiv:1110.2685v3 [physics.gen-ph]

Submission historyFrom: R. A. J. van Elburg [view email
[v1] Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:47:03 GMT (4kb)
[v2] Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:49:31 GMT (4kb)
[v3] Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:34:00 GMT (4kb)