Relativity Contradictions Unveiled:
Kinematics, Gravity and Light Refraction
available as a Paperback from Amazon.com
Physicists have been taught that lengths contract when clock rates slow
on a moving object. However, in order to satisfy the light-speed
constancy postulate, it is essential that lengths expand whenever clocks
slow down, and in exactly the same proportion. The fact that
relativity theory leads to opposite predictions of experimental results
depending on how it is applied is traced to an assumption Einstein made
in his original derivation of the Lorentz transformation. By relying
instead on the everyday experience of the GPS methodology, it is
possible to define a different space-time transformation that still
satisfies Einstein’s postulates but removes all contradictions in the
existing theory.
It also enables a return to a purely objective view of
the measurement process by assuming that the standard units in which the
laws of physics are expressed vary systematically between different
rest frames. This approach allows for quantitative prediction of key
experimental results caused by gravity such as the angle of displacement
of star images during solar eclipses. It also leads to a challenge to
Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity regarding the precession of
orbiting satellites. These results permit a much more sanguine
assessment of Newton’s vision of the Universe in terms of a strict
separation between space and time. The book also points out a
previously unnoticed connection between his corpuscular theory of light
and the key quantum mechanical relationships first discovered at the
dawn of the 20th century.
