Special Relativity in Reduced Power Algebras
arXiv:0903.0296
Abstract
Recently, [10,11], the Heisenberg Uncertainty relation and the No-Cloning property in Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Computation, respectively, have been extended to versions of Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Computation which are re-formulated using scalars in {\it reduced power algebras}, [2-9], instead of the usual real or complex scalars. Here, the Lorentz coordinate transformations, fundamental in Special Relativity, are extended to versions of Special Relativity that are similarly re-formulated in terms of scalars in reduced power algebras, instead of the usual real or complex scalars. The interest in such re-formulations of basic theories of Physics are due to a number of important reasons, [2-11]. Suffice to mention two of them : the difficult problem of so called "infinities in Physics" falls easily aside due to the presence of infinitesimal and infinitely large scalars in such reduced power algebras, and the issue of fundamental constants in physics, like Planck's , or the velocity of light , comes under a new focus which offers rather surprising alternatives.
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