2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/48171Explanations of the origin of ultra-high energy cosmic rays are severely constrained by the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuz'min effect, which limits their propagation over cosmological distances. We argue that possible departures from strict Lorentz invariance, too small to have been detected otherwise, can affect elementary-particle kinematics so as to suppress or forbid inelastic collisions of cosmic-ray nucleons with background photons. Thereby can the GZK cutoff be relaxed or removed.6 pages, harvmacHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenologytext