TESTING LORENTZ INVARIANCE

摘要

Special Relativity is absolutely basic for our understanding of physical phenomena. It has been invented to overcome the incompatibility of Newtonian mechanics and electrodynamics. The foundations as well as the predictions of Special Relativity have been tested in many respects and with very high accuracy. Here we shortly review the foundations of Special Relativity and report on various attempts to model theoretically violations of Special Relativity. We describe experiments testing the foundations and the predictions of Special Relativity and also discuss ongoing projects to improve the accuracy of these tests even more.