Trevor Underwood

Gebundenes Buch

Special Relativity

Beschreibung

This study concludes that, quite apart from enormity of the consequences of the two postulates of Albert Einstein's theory of special relativity, taken together, including length contraction, time dilation, and the requirement to assume a point electron in the unsuccessful attempt to introduce special relativity into quantum electrodynamics, the evidence in support of Einstein's second postulate on the constancy of the speed of light is far outweighed by the evidence against it. For this reason, until more satisfactory evidence in support of Einstein's second postulate, a refutation of the Ehrenfest paradox, and an explanation for the observed Doppler red shift and blue shift consistent with Einstein's two postulates, is provided, under any normal measure of a theory in physics, Einstein's second postulate, and consequently his theory of special relativity, must be rejected. Part I provides annotated extracts and translations of the original papers leading up to the establishment of Einstein's theory of special relativity and Walter Ritz's competing emission theory of electromagnetic radiation. Part II examines the evidence in support of special relativity between 1905 and 2017. Part III addresses evidence against special relativity, reviews measurements of the speed of light, and provides the Conclusion.

Autor

Trevor Underwood was born in England in 1943, and became a US citizen in 2004. He earned a M.A. in mathematics and physics at Cambridge University, in 1965, and a M.Sc. in economics at the London School of Economics in 1967, followed by further graduate studies in international economics at the University of Rochester, NY, and at Harvard University, between 1967 and 1969. He worked for the Bank of England, the International Monetary Fund, and the UK Treasury and was a UK Advisor to the Committee of Twenty on Reform of the International Monetary System, between 1969 and 1973. He founded a treasury consultancy business in 1974 and a treasury software company in 1976, which he continued to run until 2017. In 2008 he returned to scientific research, initially on human evolution. In November 2015, he published a paper "A new model of human dispersal" on bioRxiv.org, the online preprint archive for biology run by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Between December 2015 and November 2019, he worked on climate science, during which time he wrote six climate science papers. In November 2019, these were published in a book "The Surface Temperature of the Earth", distributed by Lulu.com. He then returned to theoretical physics to review progress since he left Cambridge in 1965, in particular on electromagnetic radiation, matter and gravity. In December 2021, he published a spin-off from this research, "Urbain Le Verrier on the Movement of Mercury - annotated translations", distributed by Lulu.com. In April 2023, he published "Quantum Electrodynamics - annotated sources. Volumes I and II"; in June 2023, "Special Relativity"; in November 2023, "General Relativity", and in March 2024, "Gravity", also distributed by Lulu.com.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lulu Press
• Seitenzahl: 386
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 286mm x 221mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 1228g
• ISBN-13: 9798218230456
• Artikelnr.: 69816750