Proper Time and Mass as Dynamical Variables: Why it's Possible and Some Consequences
Author:   Daniel Greenberger
Publisher:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Volume:   224
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9789819507313


Pages:   187
Publication Date:   31 July 2026
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Proper Time and Mass as Dynamical Variables: Why it's Possible and Some Consequences


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Author:   Daniel Greenberger
Publisher:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Imprint:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Volume:   224
ISBN:  

9789819507313


ISBN 10:   9819507316
Pages:   187
Publication Date:   31 July 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction.- Time and Mass as Dynamical Variables.- Newton's First Law,the Equivalence Principle,and a Quantum vs a Classical Particle.- The Equivalence Principle,and the Extended Equivalence Principle.- The Classical limit of the Equivalence Principle.- Equations of Motion.- The Relativistic Rocket as an Example.- The Galilean Transformation and the Extended Galilean Transformation.- The Uncertainty Relation Between m-t.- Experiments that Directly Measure the m-t Uncertainty Relation.- Conclusion.

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Prof. Daniel Greenberger studied at MIT, writing his thesis with Laszlo Tisza, and did his PhD at the University of Illinois and MIT under Prof. Francis Low. He then spent 2 years in the army and a year at Ohio State University, and won an NSF postdoctoral fellowship which he spent at Berkeley in the group of Geoffrey Chew. He then went on to CCNY, where he has been since, with breaks for Oxford, MIT, Vienna, and Munich. He has been a Fulbright fellow in Vienna, and spent a year at Garching, with Herbert Walther, with a senior Humboldt award. He is also an editor of several journals, and a fellow of the American Physical Society, and was elected a foreign member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He has been collaborating for 40 years with Profs. Anton Zeilinger and Michael Horne

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