U.S.-U.K. Cooperative Research: Can Quantum Nonlocality and Relativity Be Reconciled?

该奖项支持一个关于如何调和量子的论文增强项目 力学与相对论 研究生艾丽莎·埃林森提出， 在圣母大学的詹姆斯库欣的指导下进行研究 并与英国牛津大学的哈维·布朗合作， 王国 研究的目的是研究一种新的相对论公式， 假设一个首选的参考框架，但作出了所有相同的经验预测， 狭义相对论 经验证据的主张将是至关重要的 考察 如果是正确的，狭义相对论和时空结构将是 重新评估和相关的这项工作，以更大的项目， 将展示相对论力学。

This award supports a dissertation enhancement project on how to reconcile quantum mechanics with the theory of relativity. The graduate student, Alisa Ellingson, proposes to conduct research under the direction of James Cushing of the University of Notre Dame and in cooperation with Harvey Brown of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. The objective of the research is to study a new formulation of relativity which postulates a preferred reference frame, yet makes all of the same empirical predictions as the theory of special relativity. Claims of empirical evidence will be critically examined. If correct, the theory of special relativity and the structure of space-time will be reassessed and the relevance of this work to the larger project of reconciling quantum mechanics with relativity will be shown.