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arxiv: 1310.3238 · v1 · pith:MSVGP25Unew · submitted 2013-10-11 · 🪐 quant-ph · physics.optics

Lorentz Transformation of Blackbody Radiation

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keywords temperatureblackbodyradiationcalculationdistributionlorentzspectraltransformation
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We present a simple calculation of the Lorentz transformation of the spectral distribution of blackbody radiation at temperature T. Here we emphasize that T is the temperature in the blackbody rest frame and does not change. We thus avoid the confused and confusing question of how temperature transforms. We show by explicit calculation that at zero temperature the spectral distribution is invariant. At finite temperature we find the well known result familiar in discussions of the the 2.7! K cosmic radiation.

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