Special Relativity Will It Survive the Next 101 Years?

After a century of successes, phycisists feel the need to probe the limits of validity of theories based on Special Relativity. Canonical approaches to quantum gravity, non-commutitive geometry, string theory and unification scenarios predict tiny violations of Lorentz invariance at high energies.The present book, based on a recent seminar devoted to such frontier problems, contains reviews of the foundations of special relativity and the implications of Poincare invariance as well as comprehensive accounts of experimental results and proposed tests.The book addresses, besides researchers in the field, everyone interested in the conceptual and empirical foundations of our knowledge about space, time and matter.Ehlers, Jürgen is the author of 'Special Relativity Will It Survive the Next 101 Years?', published 2006 under ISBN 9783540345220 and ISBN 3540345221.