| Abstrakt: |
A nonlocal gauge symmetry of a complex scalar field, which can be trivially extended to spinor fields, was demonstrated in a recent paper (Mod. Phys. Lett.A13, 1265 (1998), hep-th/9902020). The corresponding covariant Lagrangian density yielded a new, nonlocal quantum electrodynamics. In this letter we show that as a consequence of this new QED, a black body radiation viewed through gaseous matter appears to show a slight deviation from the Planck formula, and propose an experimental test to check this effect. We also show that a non-uniformity in this gaseous matter distribution leads to an (apparent) spatial anisotropy of the black body radiation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
