Simple Proof that the Usual Transformations of the Electric and Magnetic Fields are not the Lorentz Transformations and EDM Searches
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The usual transformations of the three-dimensional (3D) fields E and B that are found in [1] ([1] A. Einstein, Ann. Physik \17, 891 (1905)) are always considered to be the relativistically correct Lorentz transformations (LT) of E and B. However, as proved in, e.g., [2] ([2] T. Ivezić, Found. Phys. Lett. 18, 301 (2005)), these transformations drastically differ from the LT of the relativistically correct 4D electric and magnetic fields. In this paper a simple proof of that difference will be presented and the consequences for EDM experiments and for some quantum phase shifts experiments are briefly examined. In all such experiments the usual 3D quantities, e.g., E, B, ... are measured and their relativistically incorrect transformations are used, but not the relativistically correct 4D geometric quantities, e.g., E^a, B^a, ... and their LT.
revtex, 4 pages
revtex, 4 pages