Testing Relativity Theory for One-way Light Propagation
2005
Classical or Bradley stellar aberration is correctly described by special relativity theory, which predicts also a second-order departure that has never been verified. We point out that the Very Long-Based Interferometry system appears now to offer sufficient resolution to allow confirmation of this truly “relativistic” aspect of starlight. The one-way nature of starlight propagation, in conjunction with the fact that most existing verifications of the special theory rest implicitly on two-way light-speed averaging, suggests the desirability of such measurements as a further independent verification of the theory.
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- Stellar aberration
- Tests of special relativity
- Classical mechanics
- Special relativity (alternative formulations)
- Test theories of special relativity
- Mathematics of general relativity
- Two-body problem in general relativity
- Ehrenfest paradox
- Emission theory
- Physics
- Theory of relativity
- Four-force
- Relativistic mechanics
- Doubly special relativity
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