Are We Observing Violations of Lorentz Symmetry?

Details Are We Observing Violations of Lorentz Symmetry? Are We Observing Violations of Lorentz Symmetry?

2006-02-20

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0602132v1

Physics

General Physics

9 pages,tex, based partly on two papers in Foundations of Physics Letters and an invited talk at the Frankfurt Inst. of Advanc

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Recent observations of ultra high energy cosmic rays and gamma rays suggest that there are small violations of Lorentz symmetry. If there were no such violations, then the GZK cut off would hold and cosmic rays with energy $\sim 10^{20}eV$ or higher would not be reaching the earth. However some such events seem to have been observed. This has lead to phenomenological models in which there is a small violation of the Lorentz symmetry or the velocity of light. However recent Quantum Gravity and String Theory approaches which no longer consider a differentiable spacetime manifold already predict such violations. Similarly there are other theoretical reasons which also point to this. We briefly discuss the various possibilities.

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