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- Title
Thomas precession and the Bacry paradox.
- Authors
Kholmetskii, Alexander L.; Missevitch, Oleg V.; Yarman, Tolga
- Abstract
We show that in the derivation of the frequency of Thomas precession, the fact of implementation of rotation-free Lorentz transformations between a laboratory frame, KL, and Lorentz frames K( t) co-moving with a particle with spin at any time moments, t, has principal importance. Choosing for the observation of the particle's motion any other inertial frame, K, related with KL by the rotation-free transformation, we have to realize that the transformations between K and K( t) at any t are no longer rotation-free. This way we provide a resolution of the known paradox by Bacry (H. Bacry. Nuovo Cimento, 26, 1164 (1962)) and suggest a reinterpretation of the Thomas precession, which is further discussed.
- Subjects
THOMAS precession; RELATIVISTIC effects in atoms; LORENTZ transformations; PARADOX; ROTATIONAL motion
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Physics, 2014, Vol 92, Issue 11, p1380
- ISSN
0008-4204
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1139/cjp-2014-0140