By Julian Schwinger
Provides thoughts that emphasize the harmony of high-energy particle physics with electrodynamics, gravitational idea, & many-particle cooperative phenomena, (First of three volumes). Paper.
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Wd&r pararnekr 8p, it i8 interesting thaL no vanear s c a k S1121~"= - - Q l a l l ~can. the wectom b l ,pep and the '&mm B1s2WP". siml Lorentz robtiom (comp~~ing three-dimemional rotations and bmts), and which give8 the traoslaLiontnl rwpom of these apratom, m e a w ~ t b nin %hrm-dinoemionalnotation, d l the~ecornmatabm reprduct? the G a m n with t w exeepdions ~ : In Gdilean relativity, then, J/cZ is neglected snd H is negIeeM mhtive to Me2, giving the effective replrteement of the operator Pale by the number M.
As the above notation suaesb, covariance can be made mpli~it by idenfifying the vohme element (dz) urith the time oompnent of a direckd element of sres on s plane space-like surfaee in four-dimensional space. This which i n t e p b are independent of the surface tr according to the consemation of P". 5) /. is assured if TP'(z) = T'"(x). The three-dimensional form of these operators is The tensor transformation response of the stress tensor Tp'(z) to an infinitesimal Lorentz transformation is given by The possibility of producing the new operators by the associated unitary transformation implies the commutation relations Integrations over a space-like surface, employing the stated properties of Tp', will reproduce all commutators for the 10 Lorentz generators if one uses the following integration theorem for a system that is closed in space-like directions: The commutators of quantum mechanics express the mutual interference of measurements on the two properties involved.
There is a simple pattern for the kxtown or strongly caxljectured maesless garlieles; their spins are given by 8 = Z4, cr = -1, 0,+X. The conwpt of elementary particle in rellitivistie mechanics remains an operational one, Lhat under the eonditiorzs of physicafi exeifa$ion available, if is consistent to @sign a unique vazlue ta m-, spin, and ather ehttracterisfic invariant a(ltributes of the system. 43); one is not likely to produce them by an a pfiori definition, Consider, for example, 1-3 Einstainian relativity 23 We approach the topic of interacting particles by giving first a relativistic generalisation of the nonrelativistic treatment of a particle moving in a macroscopic environment, Xn order to make covftriance more explicit we define a proper time derivative: with the usual symmetrization understood in the last term.