by Robert J. Buenker
Bergische Universität, Wuppertal

The present blog calls attention to an undeclared assumption made by Albert Einstein in his landmark paper [Ann. Physik 17, 891 (1905)] in which he introduced the special theory of relativity (SR). The emphasis in textbooks and periodicals is always on his two postulates of relativity (the relativity principle and the constancy of the speed of light in free space), but the well-known results of his theory such as Fitzgerald-Lorentz length contraction and the symmetry of time dilation (two clocks in motion each running slower than the other) are based just as directly on this totally unsubstantiated assumption as on the latter (please follow this link for the full text of this introduction).

For my proposal for an Alternative Lorentz Transformation (ALT), click here.

Saturday, October 19, 2024


New Book Released:

Relativity Theory Based on the Uniform Scaling of Physical Properties

available as a Paperback from Amazon.com

The purpose of the book is to provide a comprehensive overview of topics that have been covered in publications of the past 20 years. A key point is a proof that the Lorentz transformation is not internally consistent and is therefore invalid. It points out a corollary to Newton’s First Law of Kinetics which is closely related to the Law of Causality. This leads to a new space-time transformation and a procedure for computing differences in the units of time, distance and inertial mass between different rest frames. This procedure is used in the Global Positioning Navigation System in order to ensure that atomic clocks on satellites run at the same rate as their counterparts on the earth’s surface. Use is made of an alternative method introduced by Schiff in 1960 for computing the apparent displacement of star images during solar eclipses. This method is extended to also give accurate predictions of the precession of planetary orbits, which makes Schiff’s method comparable in accuracy to Einstein’s General Relativity while being considerably simpler to apply in practice.

 

 

 

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