Talk detail

Participant	Cutolo, Antonello
Institution	Università degli Studi del Sannio - Piazza Roma, 21 - Benevento - Campania - Italy

Session	AN1	Accepted	Yes	Order	4	Time	15:15 - 15:40
Talk	Oral abstract	Title	New relations between the classical mechanics and the special theory of relativity
Co-authors	none
Abstract	Starting from the hamiltonian formalism developed by Levi Civita for analyzing the classical dynamics of a closed system characterized by a limit velocity, we show that the basic equations of the special theory of the relativity can be directly derived from the classical physics. Our approach combines the limtis of the Cherenkov effect together with both the classical causality principle and the Karmers-Konig relations to demonstrate the superluminal limit (i.e. the impossibility of overpassing the velocity c of the light in vacuum). The superluminal limit is shown to hold true even in media characterized by a light velocity greater than c. Finally, we demonstrate that our results are perfectly coherent with the possibility of superluminal neutrinos and superluminal photons like those achievable in special structures like photonic crystals and metamaterials.