RETRACTED: Conservative relativity principle and energy-momentum conservation in a superimposed gravitational and electric field (Retracted article. See vol. 95, pg. 1030, 2017)

Abstract

We address to the conservative relativity principle (CRP), which we recently advanced (A.L. Kholmetskii, et al. Eur. Phys. J. Plus 129 (2014) 102). This principle asserts the impossibility to distinguish the state of rest and the state of motion of a system moving at constant velocity, if no work is done to the system in question during its motion; such a constraint is thus closely linked to the energy-momentum conservation law. Therefore, the conservative relativity principle, along with the Einstein special relativity principle (which obviously represents the particular manifestation of CRP in the case of empty space), and the general relativity principle can be considered as the cornerstones of modern physics. At the same time, some principal implications of CRP - e.g. the dependence of the proper time of a charged particle on the electric potential at its location, happens to be firmly at odds with the established structure of modern physics and, in fact, is not accepted by the wide scientific community up to date. In the present paper we consider the motion of a massive charged particle in a superimposed gravitational and electric field and explicitly demonstrate that the adoption of CRP is strongly required to prevent the violation of the total energy-momentum conservation law for an isolated system "particles and fields". Therefore, all of the consequences of CRP must be incorporated with the structure of physics, and we show that they are in a full agreement with the experimental data collected to the moment.