Speed of Light or Composition of Velocities

Sablik, Maciej

doi:10.2478/amsil-2024-0008

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Speed of Light or Composition of Velocities

Annales Mathematicae Silesianae

Volume 38 (2024): Issue 1 (March 2024)

By: Maciej Sablik

Open Access

|Mar 2024

Abstract

We analyze in our paper questions of the theory of relativity. We approach this theory from the point of view of velocities and their composition. This is where the functional equations appear. Solving them leads to a world where velocities are bounded from above, the upper bound being exactly the “speed of light”.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/amsil-2024-0008 | Journal eISSN: 2391-4238 | Journal ISSN: 0860-2107

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Language: English

Page range: 111 - 119

Submitted on: Sep 4, 2023

Accepted on: Feb 22, 2024

Published on: Mar 20, 2024

Published by: University of Silesia in Katowice, Institute of Mathematics

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

Keywords:

functional equations,

relativity theory,

conditional associativity,

Hilbert’s fifth problem

Related subjects:

Mathematics,

General mathematics

© 2024 Maciej Sablik, published by University of Silesia in Katowice, Institute of Mathematics
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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