@Ponderable
So the implications are if you can go near c velocity, the analysis of the Unruh effect can tell you your velocity relative to the universe?
Big assumptions, eh🙂
@sonhouse saidActually the effect would clear up matter/energy interaction. A quote from my originally given source:
@Ponderable
So the implications are if you can go near c velocity, the analysis of the Unruh effect can tell you your velocity relative to the universe?
Big assumptions, eh🙂
What, then, would be the point? For one, he says that observing the Unruh effect would be a validation of fundamental quantum interactions between matter and light. And for another, the detection could represent a mirror of the Hawking effect—a proposal by the physicist Stephen Hawking that predicts a similar thermal glow, or "Hawking radiation," from light and matter interactions in an extreme gravitational field, such as around a black hole.