TITLE:
Is the kinematics of special relativity incomplete?
AUTHORS:
Ernst Karl Kunst
KEYWORDS:
Special Relativity; Quantization of Velocity; Absolute Rest Frame; Symmetric Minkowsky-Space; Duality of Inertial Motion in Dependence on Two-Way or One-Way Measurement; Accelerated Propagation in the Galaxy and Beyond; Variable Rest Time on Earth; Rise of Interaction-Radii and Total Cross Sections in High Energy Collision Events
JOURNAL NAME:
Natural Science,
Vol.6 No.4,
February
28,
2014
ABSTRACT: A thorough analysis of composite inertial motion
(relativistic sum) within the framework of special relativity leads to the conclusion
that every translational motion must be the symmetrically composite
relativistic sum of a finite number of quanta of velocity. It is shown that
the resulting spacetime geometry is Gaussian and the four-vector calculus to
have its roots in the complex-number algebra. Furthermore, this results in superluminality of signals travelling at or
nearly at the canonical velocity of light between rest frames even if
resting to each other.