发表机构
Universidad Nacional de Asunción（亚松森国立大学）
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本文探讨狭义相对论能否用于非惯性参考系的争议，指出其局部有效性，并建议在教学中尽早明确这一原则以消除误解。
AI 中文摘要
尽管狭义相对论是为关联惯性参考系而构思的，但初学者甚至不专攻广义相对论的学者通常并不知道它可以应用于非惯性参考系。非专业人士的普遍看法似乎是，非惯性参考系只能通过广义相对论来描述。这种情况引发了一些关于是否有必要用广义相对论来处理涉及加速系统的问题（如双生子佯谬和旋转参考系的描述）的争议。我们讨论这一争议，并提出为避免当前的困惑，应在学习过程的早期阶段明确且清晰地陈述：在无引力的情况下，尽管使用了非惯性参考系，狭义相对论仍然局部有效。
英文摘要
Although the special theory of relativity was conceived to relate inertial reference frames, it is not generally known by beginning students, or even by academics not specializing in general relativity, that it can be applied to noninertial reference frames. The general perception among non-specialists seems to be that noninertial reference frames can only be described through general relativity. This situation has led to some controversy regarding the necessity of general relativity to address problems involving accelerated systems, such as the twin paradox and the description of rotating reference frames. We discuss the controversy and propose that, to avoid the present confusion, the local validity of special relativity in the absence of gravitation, despite the use of noninertial frames, should be explicitly and clearly stated at an early stage of the learning process.
CommentsAccepted by the American Journal of Physics(AJP)
