Life in the Rindler Reference Frame: Does a Uniformly Accelerated Charge Radiate? Is There a Bell ‘Paradox’? Is Unruh Effect Real?

Waldyr A. Rodrigues () and Jayme Vaz ()
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Waldyr A. Rodrigues: University of Campinas, Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Scientific Computing
Jayme Vaz: University of Campinas, Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Scientific Computing

A chapter in Advances in Mathematics and Applications, 2018, pp 301-348 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The determination of the electromagnetic field generated by a charge in hyperbolic motion is a classical problem for which the majority view is that the Liénard-Wiechert solution which implies that the charge radiates is the correct one. However we analyze in this paper a less known solution due to Turakulov that differs from the Liénard-Wiechert one and which according to him does not radiate. We prove his conclusion to be wrong. We analyze the implications of both solutions concerning the validity of the Equivalence Principle. We analyze also two other issues related to hyperbolic motion, the so-called Bell’s “paradox” which is as yet source of misunderstandings and the Unruh effect, which according to its standard derivation in the majority of the texts is a correct prediction of quantum field theory. We recall that the standard derivation of the Unruh effect does not resist any tentative of any rigorous mathematical investigation, in particular the one based in the algebraic approach to field theory which we also recall. These results make us to align with some researchers who also conclude that the Unruh effect does not exist.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-94015-1_13

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