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)
