Would Superluminal Influences Violate the Principle of Relativity?
DOI :
https://doi.org/10.20416/lsrsps.v1i1.33Mots-clés :
superluminal influences, principle of relativity, tachyons, quantum nonlocality, state reduction, simultaneityRésumé
It continues to be alleged that superluminal influences of any sort would be inconsistent with special relativity for the following three reasons: (i) they would imply the existence of a ‘distinguished’ frame; (ii) they would allow the detection of absolute motion; and (iii) they would violate the relativity of simultaneity. This paper shows that the first two objections rest upon very elementary misunderstandings of Minkowski geometry and on lingering Newtonian intuitions about instantaneity. The third objection has a basis, but rather than invalidating the notion of faster-than-light influences it points the way to more general conceptions of simultaneity that could allow for quantum nonlocality in a natural way.
Références
AHARONOV, Y., ALBERT, D. 1980. States and Observables in Relativistic Quantum Field Theories. Physical Review D, 21, 3316-3324.
AHARONOV, Y., ALBERT, D. 1981. Can We Make Sense Out of the Measurement Process in Relativistic Quantum Mechanics? Physical Review D, 24, 359-370.
AHARONOV, Y., POPESCU, S., TOLLAKSEN, J. 2010. A Time-symmetric Formulation of Quantum Mechanics. Physics Today, November 2010, 27-32.
ALI, A. F., DAS, S., VAGENAS, E.C. 2009, Discreteness of Space from the Generalized Uncertainty Principle. Physics Letters B, 678, 497-499.
ARDAVAN, H. 1984a. A Speed-of-Light Barrier in Classical Electrodynamics. Physical Review D, 29(2), 207-215.
ARDAVAN, H. 1984b. A Singularity Arising From the Coherent Generation of Gravitational Waves by Electromagnetic Waves. In BONNOR, W. B., ISLAM, J. N., MACCALLUM, M. (eds.). General Relativity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 5-14.
ARNTZENIUS, F. 1990. Causal Paradoxes in Special Relativity. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 41, 223-243.
ARTHUR, R. T. W. 2008. Time Lapse and the Degeneracy of Time: Gödel, Proper Time and Becoming in Relativity Theory. In DIEKS, D. (ed). The Ontology of Spacetime II. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, 207-227.
BILANIUK, O.-M. P., DESHPANDE, V. K., SUDARSHAN, E. C. G. 1962. ‘Meta’ Relativity. American Journal of Physics. 30 (10), 718-723.
BILANIUK, O.-M. P., SUDARSHAN, E. C. G. 1969. Particles Beyond the Light Barrier. Physics Today, 5, 43-51.
BOHM, D. 1952. A Suggested Interpretation of the Quantum Theory in Terms of “Hidden’’ Variables. Physical Review, 85, 166-193.
BOHM, D., Hiley, B. 1993. The Undivided Universe: An Ontological Interpretation of Quantum Theory. London and New York: Routledge.
BROWN, B. 1992. Defending Backwards Causation. Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 22(4), 429--443.
BROWN, H. R. 2005. Physical Relativity: Space-time Structure From a Dynamical Perspective. Oxford: Clarendon.
CABELLO, A. 2011. Correlations Without Parts. Nature, 474, 23 June 2011, 456-457.
CHANG, H., CARTWRIGHT, N. 1993. Causality and Realism in the EPR Experiment. Erkenntnis, 38, 169-190.
COHEN-TANNOUDJI, Claude, DIU, Bernard, LALOË, Franck. 1977. Quantum Mechanics, Volume I. New York: John Wiley.
CUSHING, James 1994. Quantum Mechanics: Historical Contingency and the Copenhagen Hegemony. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
DAINTON, B. 2010. Time and Space, Second Edition. Montréal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
DE BROGLIE, Louis. 1960. Non-Linear Wave Mechanics: A Causal Interpretation. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1960; translation by A. J. Knodel and J. C. Miller of Une Tentative Interprétation Causale et Non Linéaire de la Méchanique Ondulatoire (La Théorie de la Double Solution). Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1956.
DE BROGLIE, Louis. 1970. The Reinterpretation of Wave Mechanics. Foundations of Physics, 1(1), 5-15.
DIRAC, P. A. M. 1958. The Principles of Quantum Mechanics, Fourth Edition (Revised). Oxford: Clarendon Press.
EBERHARD, P. H., ROSS, P. R. 1989. Quantum Field Theory Cannot Provide Faster-Than-Light Communication. Foundations of Physics Letters, 2(2), 127-149.
EINSTEIN, A. 1905. Zur Electrodynamik bewegter Körper. Annalen der Physik, 322(10), 891-921. Translation in PERRETT, W., JEFFREY, G. B. (eds.), The Principle of Relativity. New York: Methuen, 1923, 37-65; page references to Dover reprint.
EINSTEIN, A. 1916. Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie. Annalen der Physik, 354(7), 769-822. Translation in PERRETT, W., JEFFREY, G. B. (eds.), The Principle of Relativity. New York: Methuen, 1923, 111-164; page references to Dover reprint.
FAYNGOLD, M. 2002. Special Relativity and Motions Faster than Light. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-VCH.
FEINBERG, G. 1967. Possibility of Faster-Than-Light Particles. Physical Review, 159, 1089-1105.
GEROCH, Robert. 2012. Faster Than Light? arXiv:1005.1614v1 [gr-qc] 10 May 2010.
GROSSMAN, Lisa. 2011. Entangled Diamonds Blur Classical-Quantum Divide. New Scientist, December 2011, http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21235-entangled-diamonds-blur-quantumclassical-divide.html.
GRÜNBAUM, A. 1973. Philosophical Problems of Space and Time, 2nd edition. Dordrecht: D. Reidel.
HILL, J. M., COX, B. J. 2012. Einstein’s Special Relativity Beyond the Speed of Light. Proceedings of the Royal Society A, doi: 10.1089/rspa.2012.0340.
JAMMER, Max. 2006. Concepts of Simultaneity: From Antiquity to Einstein and Beyond. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
KENNEDY, J. B. 1995. On the Empirical Foundations of the Quantum No-signalling Proofs. Philosophy of Science, 62, 543-560.
LEE, K. C., SPRAGUE, M. R., SUSSMAN, B. J., NUNN, J., LANGFORD, N. K., JIN, X.-M., CHAMPION, T., MICHELBERGER, P., REIM, K. F., ENGLAND, D., JAKSCH, D., WALMSLEY, I. A. 2011. Entangling Mascroscopic Diamonds at Room Temperature. Science, 334, 2 December 2011, 1253-1256.
LUCAS, J. R. 1999. A Century of Time. In BUTTERFIELD, J. (ed.), 1999, The Arguments of Time. Oxford: Oxford University Press and the British Academy, 1-20.
MATTINGLY, David. 2005. Modern Tests of Lorentz Invariance. Living Reviews in Relativity 8, http://www.livingreviews.org/lrr-2005-5.
MANN, C., CREASE, R. 1988. Interview With J. S. Bell. Omni, May 1988, 84+.
MARDER, L. 1971. Time and the Space-Traveller. London: Allen and Unwin.
MAUDLIN, T. 2002. Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity. Second Edition. Oxford: Blackwell.
MAXWELL, N. 1985. Are probabilism and special relativity compatible? Philosophy of Science, 55, 23-43.
MITTELSTAEDT, P. 1998. Can EPR-correlations be used for the transmission of superluminal signals? Annalen der Physik, 7(7-8), 710-715.
MISNER, C., THORNE, K., WHEELER, J. A. 1973. Gravitation. San Francisco: Freeman.
MUNDY, Brent. 1986. The Physical Content of Minkowski Geometry. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 37, 25-54.
MULLER, F. A. 1992. On the Principle of Relativity. Foundations of Physics Letters, 5(6), 591-5.
NERLICH, Graham. 1982. Special Relativity is Not Based on Causality. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 33, 361-388.
PEACOCK, K. A. 1992. Comment on ‘Tests of Signal Locality and Einstein-Bell Locality’ by S. Roy and V. Singh. Physical Review Letters, 69(18), 2377.
PEACOCK, K. A. 1992. A New Look at Simultaneity. in HULL, D., FORBES, M., OKRUHLIK, K. (eds.). PSA 1992: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Vol. I. East Lansing, MI: Philosophy of Science Association. 542-552.
PEACOCK, K. A. 1998. On the Edge of a Paradigm Shift: Quantum Nonlocality and the Breakdown of Peaceful Coexistence. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 12(2), 129-150.
PEACOCK, K. A. 2006. Temporal Presentness and the Dynamics of Spacetime. In DIEKS, D. (ed.). The Ontology of Spacetime. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 247-261.
RECAMI, E. 1986. Classical Tachyons and Possible Applications. Revista del Nuovo Cimento, 9(6), 1-178.
REDHEAD, M. 1987. Incompleteness, Nonlocality, and Realism: A Prolegomenon to the Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
REICHENBACH, Hans 1957. The Philosophy of Space and Time. Trans. M. Reichenbach and J. Freund. New York: Dover. Reprint and translation of Philosophie der Raum-Zeit-Lehre, 1928.
RIETDIJK, C. W. 1985. On Nonlocal Influences. In TAROZZI, G., VAN DER MERWE, A., (eds.). Open Questions in Quantum Physics. Dordrecht: Reidel, 129-151.
RINDLER, W. 1979. Essential Relativity: Special, General, and Cosmological. Revised Second Edition. New York: Springer-Verlag.
ROTHMAN, M. 1960. Things That Go Faster Than Light. Scientific American, 203(1), 142-152.
ROVELLI, Carlo 2004. Quantum Gravity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
SALMON, W. C. 1980. Space, Time, and Motion: A Philosophical Introduction. Second Edition. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
SHIMONY, A. 1983. Controllable and Uncontrollable Nonlocality. In KAMEFUCHI, S. et al. (eds.), Foundations of Quantum Mechanics in the Light of New Techology, 225; reprinted in SHIMONY, A. Search for a Naturalistic World View: Vol. II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993, 130-139.
SIGAL, S., and SHAMALY, A. 1974. Tachyon Behavior in General Relativity. Physical Review D, 10(8), 2358-2360.
SMITH, N. J. J. 1997. Bananas enough for time travel? British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 48, 363-389.
SOUTER, A. et al. (eds.). 1968. Oxford Latin Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
SUDARSHAN, E. C. G. (1978): ‘Tachyons and the Search for a Preferred Frame’, in E. Recami (ed.), Tachyons, Monopoles and Related Topics. Amsterdam: North-Holland, pp. 43-46.
SUTHERLAND, R. I. and SHEPANSKI, J. R. 1986. Superluminal reference frames and generalized Lorentz transformations. Physical Review D, 33, 2896-2902.
VIEIRA, R. S. 2012. An Introduction to the Theory of Tachyons (Uma introdução á teoria dos táquions), Revista Brasileira de Ensino de Física, 34(3), 3306-2 -- 3306-15; preprint (English) at arXiv:1112.4187v2 [physics.gen-ph] 12 Jan 2012.
WEINBERG, Steven. 2008. Cosmology. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press.
WEINSTEIN, S. 2006. Superluminal Signaling and Relativity. Synthese, 148, 381-399.
WHEELER, J. A., TAYLOR, E. 1966. Spacetime Physics. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman.
WOODS, John. 2002. Paradox and Paraconsistency: Conflict Resolution in the Abstract Sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
AHARONOV, Y., ALBERT, D. 1981. Can We Make Sense Out of the Measurement Process in Relativistic Quantum Mechanics? Physical Review D, 24, 359-370.
AHARONOV, Y., POPESCU, S., TOLLAKSEN, J. 2010. A Time-symmetric Formulation of Quantum Mechanics. Physics Today, November 2010, 27-32.
ALI, A. F., DAS, S., VAGENAS, E.C. 2009, Discreteness of Space from the Generalized Uncertainty Principle. Physics Letters B, 678, 497-499.
ARDAVAN, H. 1984a. A Speed-of-Light Barrier in Classical Electrodynamics. Physical Review D, 29(2), 207-215.
ARDAVAN, H. 1984b. A Singularity Arising From the Coherent Generation of Gravitational Waves by Electromagnetic Waves. In BONNOR, W. B., ISLAM, J. N., MACCALLUM, M. (eds.). General Relativity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 5-14.
ARNTZENIUS, F. 1990. Causal Paradoxes in Special Relativity. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 41, 223-243.
ARTHUR, R. T. W. 2008. Time Lapse and the Degeneracy of Time: Gödel, Proper Time and Becoming in Relativity Theory. In DIEKS, D. (ed). The Ontology of Spacetime II. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, 207-227.
BILANIUK, O.-M. P., DESHPANDE, V. K., SUDARSHAN, E. C. G. 1962. ‘Meta’ Relativity. American Journal of Physics. 30 (10), 718-723.
BILANIUK, O.-M. P., SUDARSHAN, E. C. G. 1969. Particles Beyond the Light Barrier. Physics Today, 5, 43-51.
BOHM, D. 1952. A Suggested Interpretation of the Quantum Theory in Terms of “Hidden’’ Variables. Physical Review, 85, 166-193.
BOHM, D., Hiley, B. 1993. The Undivided Universe: An Ontological Interpretation of Quantum Theory. London and New York: Routledge.
BROWN, B. 1992. Defending Backwards Causation. Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 22(4), 429--443.
BROWN, H. R. 2005. Physical Relativity: Space-time Structure From a Dynamical Perspective. Oxford: Clarendon.
CABELLO, A. 2011. Correlations Without Parts. Nature, 474, 23 June 2011, 456-457.
CHANG, H., CARTWRIGHT, N. 1993. Causality and Realism in the EPR Experiment. Erkenntnis, 38, 169-190.
COHEN-TANNOUDJI, Claude, DIU, Bernard, LALOË, Franck. 1977. Quantum Mechanics, Volume I. New York: John Wiley.
CUSHING, James 1994. Quantum Mechanics: Historical Contingency and the Copenhagen Hegemony. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
DAINTON, B. 2010. Time and Space, Second Edition. Montréal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
DE BROGLIE, Louis. 1960. Non-Linear Wave Mechanics: A Causal Interpretation. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1960; translation by A. J. Knodel and J. C. Miller of Une Tentative Interprétation Causale et Non Linéaire de la Méchanique Ondulatoire (La Théorie de la Double Solution). Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1956.
DE BROGLIE, Louis. 1970. The Reinterpretation of Wave Mechanics. Foundations of Physics, 1(1), 5-15.
DIRAC, P. A. M. 1958. The Principles of Quantum Mechanics, Fourth Edition (Revised). Oxford: Clarendon Press.
EBERHARD, P. H., ROSS, P. R. 1989. Quantum Field Theory Cannot Provide Faster-Than-Light Communication. Foundations of Physics Letters, 2(2), 127-149.
EINSTEIN, A. 1905. Zur Electrodynamik bewegter Körper. Annalen der Physik, 322(10), 891-921. Translation in PERRETT, W., JEFFREY, G. B. (eds.), The Principle of Relativity. New York: Methuen, 1923, 37-65; page references to Dover reprint.
EINSTEIN, A. 1916. Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie. Annalen der Physik, 354(7), 769-822. Translation in PERRETT, W., JEFFREY, G. B. (eds.), The Principle of Relativity. New York: Methuen, 1923, 111-164; page references to Dover reprint.
FAYNGOLD, M. 2002. Special Relativity and Motions Faster than Light. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-VCH.
FEINBERG, G. 1967. Possibility of Faster-Than-Light Particles. Physical Review, 159, 1089-1105.
GEROCH, Robert. 2012. Faster Than Light? arXiv:1005.1614v1 [gr-qc] 10 May 2010.
GROSSMAN, Lisa. 2011. Entangled Diamonds Blur Classical-Quantum Divide. New Scientist, December 2011, http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21235-entangled-diamonds-blur-quantumclassical-divide.html.
GRÜNBAUM, A. 1973. Philosophical Problems of Space and Time, 2nd edition. Dordrecht: D. Reidel.
HILL, J. M., COX, B. J. 2012. Einstein’s Special Relativity Beyond the Speed of Light. Proceedings of the Royal Society A, doi: 10.1089/rspa.2012.0340.
JAMMER, Max. 2006. Concepts of Simultaneity: From Antiquity to Einstein and Beyond. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
KENNEDY, J. B. 1995. On the Empirical Foundations of the Quantum No-signalling Proofs. Philosophy of Science, 62, 543-560.
LEE, K. C., SPRAGUE, M. R., SUSSMAN, B. J., NUNN, J., LANGFORD, N. K., JIN, X.-M., CHAMPION, T., MICHELBERGER, P., REIM, K. F., ENGLAND, D., JAKSCH, D., WALMSLEY, I. A. 2011. Entangling Mascroscopic Diamonds at Room Temperature. Science, 334, 2 December 2011, 1253-1256.
LUCAS, J. R. 1999. A Century of Time. In BUTTERFIELD, J. (ed.), 1999, The Arguments of Time. Oxford: Oxford University Press and the British Academy, 1-20.
MATTINGLY, David. 2005. Modern Tests of Lorentz Invariance. Living Reviews in Relativity 8, http://www.livingreviews.org/lrr-2005-5.
MANN, C., CREASE, R. 1988. Interview With J. S. Bell. Omni, May 1988, 84+.
MARDER, L. 1971. Time and the Space-Traveller. London: Allen and Unwin.
MAUDLIN, T. 2002. Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity. Second Edition. Oxford: Blackwell.
MAXWELL, N. 1985. Are probabilism and special relativity compatible? Philosophy of Science, 55, 23-43.
MITTELSTAEDT, P. 1998. Can EPR-correlations be used for the transmission of superluminal signals? Annalen der Physik, 7(7-8), 710-715.
MISNER, C., THORNE, K., WHEELER, J. A. 1973. Gravitation. San Francisco: Freeman.
MUNDY, Brent. 1986. The Physical Content of Minkowski Geometry. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 37, 25-54.
MULLER, F. A. 1992. On the Principle of Relativity. Foundations of Physics Letters, 5(6), 591-5.
NERLICH, Graham. 1982. Special Relativity is Not Based on Causality. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 33, 361-388.
PEACOCK, K. A. 1992. Comment on ‘Tests of Signal Locality and Einstein-Bell Locality’ by S. Roy and V. Singh. Physical Review Letters, 69(18), 2377.
PEACOCK, K. A. 1992. A New Look at Simultaneity. in HULL, D., FORBES, M., OKRUHLIK, K. (eds.). PSA 1992: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Vol. I. East Lansing, MI: Philosophy of Science Association. 542-552.
PEACOCK, K. A. 1998. On the Edge of a Paradigm Shift: Quantum Nonlocality and the Breakdown of Peaceful Coexistence. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 12(2), 129-150.
PEACOCK, K. A. 2006. Temporal Presentness and the Dynamics of Spacetime. In DIEKS, D. (ed.). The Ontology of Spacetime. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 247-261.
RECAMI, E. 1986. Classical Tachyons and Possible Applications. Revista del Nuovo Cimento, 9(6), 1-178.
REDHEAD, M. 1987. Incompleteness, Nonlocality, and Realism: A Prolegomenon to the Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
REICHENBACH, Hans 1957. The Philosophy of Space and Time. Trans. M. Reichenbach and J. Freund. New York: Dover. Reprint and translation of Philosophie der Raum-Zeit-Lehre, 1928.
RIETDIJK, C. W. 1985. On Nonlocal Influences. In TAROZZI, G., VAN DER MERWE, A., (eds.). Open Questions in Quantum Physics. Dordrecht: Reidel, 129-151.
RINDLER, W. 1979. Essential Relativity: Special, General, and Cosmological. Revised Second Edition. New York: Springer-Verlag.
ROTHMAN, M. 1960. Things That Go Faster Than Light. Scientific American, 203(1), 142-152.
ROVELLI, Carlo 2004. Quantum Gravity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
SALMON, W. C. 1980. Space, Time, and Motion: A Philosophical Introduction. Second Edition. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
SHIMONY, A. 1983. Controllable and Uncontrollable Nonlocality. In KAMEFUCHI, S. et al. (eds.), Foundations of Quantum Mechanics in the Light of New Techology, 225; reprinted in SHIMONY, A. Search for a Naturalistic World View: Vol. II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993, 130-139.
SIGAL, S., and SHAMALY, A. 1974. Tachyon Behavior in General Relativity. Physical Review D, 10(8), 2358-2360.
SMITH, N. J. J. 1997. Bananas enough for time travel? British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 48, 363-389.
SOUTER, A. et al. (eds.). 1968. Oxford Latin Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
SUDARSHAN, E. C. G. (1978): ‘Tachyons and the Search for a Preferred Frame’, in E. Recami (ed.), Tachyons, Monopoles and Related Topics. Amsterdam: North-Holland, pp. 43-46.
SUTHERLAND, R. I. and SHEPANSKI, J. R. 1986. Superluminal reference frames and generalized Lorentz transformations. Physical Review D, 33, 2896-2902.
VIEIRA, R. S. 2012. An Introduction to the Theory of Tachyons (Uma introdução á teoria dos táquions), Revista Brasileira de Ensino de Física, 34(3), 3306-2 -- 3306-15; preprint (English) at arXiv:1112.4187v2 [physics.gen-ph] 12 Jan 2012.
WEINBERG, Steven. 2008. Cosmology. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press.
WEINSTEIN, S. 2006. Superluminal Signaling and Relativity. Synthese, 148, 381-399.
WHEELER, J. A., TAYLOR, E. 1966. Spacetime Physics. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman.
WOODS, John. 2002. Paradox and Paraconsistency: Conflict Resolution in the Abstract Sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Téléchargements
Publiée
2014-07-01
Comment citer
Peacock, Kent. 2014. « Would Superluminal Influences Violate the Principle of Relativity? ». Lato Sensu: Revue De La Société De Philosophie Des Sciences 1 (1). https://doi.org/10.20416/lsrsps.v1i1.33.
Numéro
Rubrique
Article de recherche
Licence
Ce travail est disponible sous licence Creative Commons Attribution - Pas d'Utilisation Commerciale - Pas de Modification 4.0 International.
Les auteurs conservent le droit d'auteur et accordent à la revue le droit de première publication, l'ouvrage étant alors disponible simultanément, sous la licence Licence d’attribution Creative Commons permettant à d'autres de partager l'ouvrage tout en en reconnaissant la paternité et la publication initiale dans cette revue.
