TY - JOUR

T1 - Universal Constants as Manifestations of Relativity

AU - Sheykin, A. A.

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.

PY - 2022/4

Y1 - 2022/4

N2 - We study the possible interpretation of the "universal constants" by the classification of J.-M. Lévy-Leblond. The Planck constant and the speed of light in vacuum are the most common examples of constants of this type. Using Fock’s principle of the relativity w.r.t. observation means, we show that these two constants can be viewed as manifestations of certain relativity. We also show that there is a possibility to interpret the Boltzmann constant in a similar way, and make some comments about the relativistic interpretation of the constant spacetime curvature and gravitational constant G.

AB - We study the possible interpretation of the "universal constants" by the classification of J.-M. Lévy-Leblond. The Planck constant and the speed of light in vacuum are the most common examples of constants of this type. Using Fock’s principle of the relativity w.r.t. observation means, we show that these two constants can be viewed as manifestations of certain relativity. We also show that there is a possibility to interpret the Boltzmann constant in a similar way, and make some comments about the relativistic interpretation of the constant spacetime curvature and gravitational constant G.

KW - General relativity

KW - Planck constant

KW - Speed of light

KW - Uncertainty relations

KW - Universal constants

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85126210241&partnerID=8YFLogxK

UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/2103.13854

UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/9ddd9cf4-3132-3e93-a0e0-4e072440a750/

U2 - 10.1007/s10701-022-00552-2

DO - 10.1007/s10701-022-00552-2

M3 - Article

VL - 52

JO - Foundations of Physics

JF - Foundations of Physics

SN - 0015-9018

IS - 2

M1 - 34

ER -