Relativity and impossibility of superluminal motion

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/21/11/110301

Abstract I prove that not only particle motion but also wave propagation cannot be faster than light according to relativity.

Keywords: micro particles wave propagation impossibility of superluminal motion

Received: 05 May 2012
Revised: 13 June 2012
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PACS:	03.30.+p	(Special relativity)
	03.65.-w	(Quantum mechanics)
	03.65.Pm	(Relativistic wave equations)

Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 10875003).

Corresponding Authors: Zhang Qi-Ren
E-mail: zhangqr@pku.edu.cn

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Zhang Qi-Ren (张启仁 ) Relativity and impossibility of superluminal motion 2012 Chin. Phys. B 21 110301

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