light comes from a broken universe?
(by broken i mean asymmetric, which is my prerogative as a non-academic journal)
just when we thought we knew something, maybe not so much. from the press-release version…
Light may arise from relativity violations [indiana university]The new results show that this description of light is a general feature of relativity violations and holds both in empty space and in the presence of gravity. “In this picture, light has a strange beauty, and its origin is tied into minuscule violations of Einstein’s relativity in a profound and general way,” Kostelecky said.
a preprint is available at arxiv.org.
expect lots of fun experiments to follow.