Abstract
We calculate the lifetime (or decay length) dilation of an unstable particle in flight traveling with constant linear acceleration, where "constant linear acceleration" has been redefined in relativistically consistent terms. These predictions are made using two existing physical theories of non-inertial frames and could easily be tested using the linear accelerators available today. The physical theories are based on the principle of "limiting four-dimensional symmetry," which requires the transformations to have the symmetry property of the Lorentz group in the limiting case where the acceleration goes to zero. The validation of either of these theories would allow an exact calculation of the result of the famous "clock paradox" of special relativity.