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Ignoring gravity, experimental bounds seem to suggest that special relativity with its Lorentz symmetry and Poincaré symmetry describes spacetime. Surprisingly, Bogoslovsky and independently Cohen and Glashow have demonstrated that a small subgroup of the Lorentz group is sufficient to explain all the current bounds.

The minimal subgroup in question can be described as follows: The stabilizer of a null vector is the special Euclidean group SE, which contains T as the subgroup of parabolic transformations. This T, when extended to include either parity or time reversal , is sufficient to give us all the standard predictions. Their new symmetry is called very special relativity.

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