The scientists hope to improve their limit by at least a factor of a 100. “We are also working on an experiment to be flown on the International Space Station around 2008, of which Lorentz invariance ...

For the earlier example, a rocket moving at 50% the speed of light that fires a cannonball at 50% the speed of light will result in a cannonball traveling at 80% the speed of light, with a Lorentz ...

This is the Lorentz transformation, and the factor that we added is the Lorentz factor. And the fact that the laws of physics don't change under a Lorentz transformation is called Lorentz symmetry.

These sorts of transformations, based on Lorentz invariance, are a key part of physics and are founded on a certain conception of space and time. Ho?ava's work is pretty exciting, ...

Lorentz's electron theory of 1892 bridges classical and modern physics. Skip to main content. Scientific American. June 1, 2012. 3 min read.