Abstract
An experiment is described showing that a 36 GHz microwave signal received by rotating antennas is not exhibiting the frequency shift ("transverse Doppler effect") predicted by the relativistic Doppler formula. The sensitivity of the apparatus used has been tested to be sufficient for detecting frequency shifts as small as 1E-3 Hz which corresponds to the value of (v/c)^2 = 5E-14 used in the transverse Doppler shift experiment reported here. From the observed absence of the transverse Doppler shift it is speculated that either the time dilation predicted by the standard theory of special relativity does not exist in reality or, if it does, is a phenomenon which does not depend on relative velocities but may be a function of absolute velocities in the fundamental frame of the isotropic microwave background radiation.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 19th IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Publication status | Published - May 2002 |
Fields of science
- 202 Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Information Engineering
- 202019 High frequency engineering
- 202021 Industrial electronics
- 202027 Mechatronics
- 202028 Microelectronics
- 202036 Sensor systems
- 202037 Signal processing
- 203017 Micromechanics
- 502058 Digital transformation