Bernard Chaverondier
Bernard Chaverondier | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | French |
| Alma mater | Arts et Métiers |
| Known for | Lorentzian interpretation of relativity and non-locality |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics, Mechanics |
| Institutions | CNIM (Constructions Industrielles de la Méditerranée) |
Bernard Chaverondier is a French engineer (Ingénieur Arts et Métiers) and professeur agrégé of mechanics who has written on the foundations of relativity and quantum mechanics. He is listed in The Worldwide List of Dissident Scientists.
Ideas
Chaverondier argues that a Lorentzian reading of relativity, retaining a notion of absolute simultaneity and a preferred frame, can be reconciled with the non-local correlations observed in quantum experiments. He suggests that the outcomes of Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen–type experiments (such as those of Alain Aspect) can be interpreted as establishing a causal link between events separated by spacelike intervals, and that this interpretation is consistent with an absolute "Lorentzian" chronology able to order all events causally. He has framed such a picture in terms of Special Relativity coexisting with possible Lorentz violations within an "Aristotle space-time," where boost invariance is treated as a property of physical phenomena rather than of space-time geometry. These positions lie outside the mainstream interpretation of special relativity, which does not admit a preferred frame or absolute simultaneity.