Temperature and time dilation, Heisenberg and Einstein

Hakan ÜNAL

Magdalena Zych

Magdalena Zych

Carl M. King

V. G. Rousseau

Abstract The universality of time dilation is sometimes misunderstood, with claims that it applies exclusively to light clocks and not to mechanical clocks or other material objects, including biological entities. This leads to incorrect interpretations of experiments like the Hafele–Keating experiment, which actually confirm relativistic effects through the use of atomic clocks. To address this issue, we propose a thought experiment, inspired by Schrödinger’s cat, involving a ‘Sync-or-Die clock’, a device that combines a light clock and a mechanical stopwatch, with the life of Einstein’s cat, Tiger, depending on their synchronization. A straightforward analysis shows that both clocks experience time dilation equally, reinforcing the fact that time dilation is not limited to clocks based on light propagation but is a universal feature of Special Relativity.

Ulaş Doruköz

In this article, the Lorentz Factor is reviewed in terms of Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle in the light of Einstein’s relativity equations. It is shown that the relative speed between any two objects in Space can not be zero under any circumstances. Therefore the Lorentz Factor can never be equal to 1. And the velocity vector of an object is unique with respect to any reference frame. These provide a new perspective to be able to derive a general exclusion principle defining the nature of relative motion and improve the understanding about some basic concepts of Physics including time and distance perceptions, attributes of an object, volume, singularities, particle-wave duality and the nature of light which are discussed in the paper. And it is also shown that there is a relation between the time dilation in special relativity and the doppler shift of matter waves.