Edmondo Mazzantini
Edmondo Mazzantini | |
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| Nationality | Italian |
| Known for | Work on the isotropy of the one-way speed of light |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics (special relativity) |
Edmondo Mazzantini is a researcher known for work on the one-way speed of light and the conventionality of clock synchronization in special relativity. He is listed in The Worldwide List of Dissident Scientists.
Work
Mazzantini published a paper titled "Isotropy of the One-way Speed of Light: An Innovative Approach," which appeared in the Italian physics review Il Giornale di Fisica (1999) and later on the General Science Journal. The work engages with Franco Selleri's argument that the synchronization parameter in the equations of special relativity cannot be fixed by experiment, so that the isotropy of the one-way speed of light cannot be empirically demonstrated. Mazzantini proposes an approach aimed at addressing this question. His treatment touches on related themes such as superluminal ("tachyonic") propagation. The topic remains one where the standard view holds that the one-way speed of light is a matter of synchronization convention.