"Our observation of such high-energy photons at all raises the energy scale where relativity holds by more than a factor of a hundred," Harding said in the statement. The maximum collision energy produced at the Large Hadron Collider is around 14 TeV.įindings showed that even at these extreme energies, none of the sources violated the Lorentz Invariance. That is equivalent to a trillion times the energy of visible light. The team were looking at recently detected gamma rays that came from four galactic sources producing photons above 100 TeV. Results of the experiment are published in the journal Physical Review Letters.
"Most quantum gravity models say the behavior of relativity will break down at very high energies." "How relativity behaves at very high energies has real consequences for the world around us," Pat Harding, an astrophysicist from the Los Alamos National Laboratory, said in a statement. If the Lorentz Invariance broke down, it would mean several different phenomena become possible. It is thought, however, that this theory may break down at the highest energies. This constant forms part of the Standard Model of particle physics-our best, but as of yet incomplete, explanation for how the universe works. This is part of Albert Einstein's theory of special relativity that says the speed of light is constant across the universe, regardless of where you are or how fast you are moving. In the latest experiment, led by Andrea Albert, from the Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, researchers with the HAWC were looking to test the Lorentz Invariance.
It occurs when a charged particle travels through a medium faster than light can travel through that medium." As the HAWC explains: "Cherenkov light is the electromagnetic equivalent of a sonic boom. The gamma rays are detected by recording the level of Cherenkov light produced as the particles pass through the water. The HAWC observes gamma rays using hundreds of huge tanks of purified water. Read more First-of-Its-Kind Tear-Shaped Star That Pulsates on Just One Side Found
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