Nonlocal Special Relativity: Amplitude Shift in Spin-Rotation Coupling

TL;DR

This paper introduces nonlocal special relativity, which incorporates past history effects into the theory, leading to a new amplitude shift in spin-rotation coupling that challenges the locality assumption.

Contribution

It presents a novel nonlocal extension of special relativity that predicts an additional amplitude shift in spin-rotation interactions due to nonlocality.

Findings

Nonlocality causes an amplitude shift in spin-rotation coupling.

The theory addresses the inconsistency with the Bohr-Rosenfeld principle.

Implications for electrodynamics and wave measurement are discussed.

Abstract

The standard theory of relativity is based on the hypothesis of locality. The locality principle assumes that an object is affected only by its immediate surroundings and not by variables in the past. It follows that in standard relativity theory even wave properties are measured instantaneously. This contradicts the Bohr-Rosenfeld principle, according to which fields cannot be determined instantaneously. Nonlocal special relativity resolves the problem by taking past history into account. The current status of nonlocal electrodynamics is discussed and a new consequence of nonlocality, namely, a certain additional amplitude shift due to nonlocality in the spin-rotation coupling is presented.