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by Satya Pal Gulati, Shoba Gulati

Pages: 98
Publisher: Delta Publications (New Delhi, India)
Year: 1982
ISBN: B001OMTSWO
ISBN: B0006EEVHI

This book is an open challenging invitation to "Einsteinians' -- particularly so to the person like Professor A. I. Miller of the USA who in his recent book ?Albert Einstein?s Theory of Special Relativity? (Addison-Wesley, 1981) has undertaken to apotheosize Einstein whose work if not an act of straight plagiarism is definitely ?A BIG HOWLER?; infested with infidelities. The ?Transformation Maze? is another interesting feature of the book. Besides, it also contains outlines of the authors? ?SIMILARITY THEORY?, perhaps the only valid alternative.

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by Dallas Irvine

Pages: 352
Publisher: W. H. Green
Year: 1981
ISBN: 0875273068
ISBN: 978-0875273068



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by Vertner Vergon

Pages: 85
Publisher: Vertner Vergon
Year: 2001

Websites: wwwvergon.blogspot.com/

A diagnosis is an analytical procedure in which the patient is closely examined to learn what ails him ? and what cures are needed. In reading these papers, the reader comes to understand the theory much better than in reading the books which merely explain the theory. The authors of these books repeat the errors and common misinterpretations that have created the theory's mystique for the last century.

This Omnibus clarifies and corrects the theory in such a way that the reader comes to a superior understanding of it. The beauty of it is that one does not have to be a mathematical wizard to follow the process. The math is not only simple but each equation is explained in detail. The illustrations help a great deal also. On the whole, the Omnibus is a fascinating learning experience in which one is brought to the forefront of the discipline.


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by Ian McCausland

Pages: 260
Publisher: Apeiron
Year: 2011
ISBN: 978-0986492662

A Scientific Adventure continues the story of my collaboration with Herbert Dingle, and brings the story up to date by describing many of my activities in my forty-year adventure in studying and writing critically about relativity. The book draws attention to the unsatisfactory situation whereby many arguments defending relativity are accepted by almost all scientists in spite of numerous contradictions, and it includes a description of the published debate between the author and Professor Jack Good, an eminent mathematician. Although the debate was left unresolved by Good?s death in 2009, Good had conceded an error in an important part of his argument and had left his case in an unresolved state. An important feature of the book is the demonstration that a claim of an internal inconsistency in special relativity theory cannot be refuted by citing experimental support for the theory, because an inconsistent theory could match any experimental results whatever.

One of Dingle's criticisms of the special theory is presented in an appendix, with a commentary showing that a published attempt to refute the argument by Professor Good was not sound. Other appendices present some of my published papers on the topics discussed in the book.


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by Liudmila B. Boldyreva, Nina B. Sotina

Pages: 62
Publisher: Logos (Moscow)
Year: 1999
ISBN: 593124152

Translated from Russian by Mikhail Boldyrev.

The nature of light being a subject of intensive research and speculation over the centuries still remains a "dark" issue of modern physics. It been established that light transfers energy from the source to the receiver by discrete portions, the quanta. However, there is no unified point of view on the nature of the material carrier of the light quantum, that is, the photon. There are several types of photon used in descriptions of the experiments that demonstrate quantum optical effects (Sec. 5). The difference in usage of the term "photon" reflects the difference in interpretation of the results of such experiments.

Among quantum optical effects the so-called "essentially quantum effects" that have no classical analogues are worth special mentioning. Such effects cannot be described in the framework of the semi-classical model based on the Maxwell equations, and quantum models are used to describe the effects.

Although the quantum formalism provides a good description of the essentially quantum optical effects, there are great difficulties in its interpretation. In this work it will be shown (Sec. 1) that any of the well-known interpretations of the quantum formalism for the case of "nonclassical" light is inconsistent with the main concepts of the special theory of relativity. The main disagreement between special relativity and quantum theory is in the attitude towards measurement. While measurement is of primary importance in quantum mechanics, relativity asserts that all the detected characteristics of light exist a priori (before the measurement). All implications of special are postulated for any inertial frame of reference, not for physical frames (in the sense of actually existing laboratories) as it must be in the study of a quantum object (Sec. 2)...


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by Herbert Dingle

Pages: 280
Publisher: George Allen and Unwin
Year: 1961
ISBN: B000FSRQQI
ISBN: B0006DB2YE
ISBN: B000ZN9TC2

Websites: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Dingle

This book originated in the belief that there is an urgent need at the present time for a greater association between philosophers and scientists and of both with religious people. The problem of bringing this association into being is approached from different angles by the two authors, who, while agreeing on the main thesis, differ on many details, and the discussion is largely concerned with an examination of the points of difference. It ranges over the significance of scientific concepts, such as ether, energy, space and time, the place of mathematics in science and of linguistics in philosophy, the nature of scientific thought in relation to the universe as a whole, problems of life, mind, ethics and theology. It also raises questions of importance concerning the present attitudes of organizations dealing with these matters towards their respective concerns.

In the course of the discussion, Dingle described how a scientific paper critical of special relativity was rejected by various journals. Part of the paper is reproduced as Appendix II of the book, and is a very clear description of his "Proof that Einstein?s Special Theory cannot correspond with fact."


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by Patrick Cornille

Pages: 792
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Year: 2003
ISBN: 9812383670
ISBN: 978-9812383679

Websites: www.worldscibooks.com/physics/5272.html

This book is aimed at a large audience: scientists, engineers, professors and students wise enough to keep a critical stance whenever confronted with the chilling dogmas of contemporary physics. Readers will find a tantalizing amount of material calculated to nurture their thoughts and arouse their suspicion, to some degree at least, on the so-called validity of today's most celebrated physical theories.

Contents:

  • Wave Meaning of the Special Relativity Theory
  • Change of Reference Frame
  • Relativistic and Classical Mechanics
  • Experimental Tests of Special Relativity
  • Partial Differential Equations of Second Order
  • The Wave Packet Concept
  • Electromagnetism
  • Electromagnetic Induction
  • Amp?re and Lorentz Forces
  • The Li?nard?Wiechert Potential
  • Analysis of the Electromagnetic Field
  • Photonics Versus Electromagnetism
  • Radiation of Extended Sources
  • The Green Formulation
  • Wave Extinction in a Dielectric
  • Plasma Equation

Readership: Students and academics in advanced physics.


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by Michele Barone, Franco Selleri

Pages: 474
Publisher: Hadronic Press
Year: 1995
ISBN: 091176772X
ISBN: 978-0911767728

Proceedings of an International Conference held 1994 in Olympia, Greece

Contents:

FUNDAMENTAL IDEAS:

  • Michele Barone, The Underwater Neutrino Telescopes  1
  • Jenner Barretto Bastos-Filho & R. M. X. de Araujo, Dimensional Analysis and Fundamental Physical Constants in N-Dimensional Spaces for Real N  11
  • G. F. Sanger, On Mechanisms of Ambiguity and Adaptation in Nature and Their Dimensions  23
  • Ruggero Maria Santilli, An Introduction to Hadronic Mechanics  69

RELATIVITY

  • Roland H. Dishington, Cause and Effect in Special Relativity  187
  • Joseph Levy, Is the Invariance of the Speed of Light Compatible with Quantum Mechanics?  Some New Arguments  203
  • Constantin I. Mocanu, Hertzian Extension of Einstein Special Relativity to Non-Uniform Motions  217
  • A. Panaitescu, On the Electromagnetic State Quantities in Electrodynamics of Moving Media  241
  • A. Paparodopoulos, The Law of Universla Gravitation in a G Variant Universe  265
  • Simon J. Prokhovnik, The Nature of Friedmann Universes  277
  • Horst E. Wilhelm, Physical Foundations of Galilei Covariant Electrodynamics  283

QUANTUM PHYSICS

  • A. Afriat, Correlations Involving Several Subsystems 2999
  • Co. Antonopoulos, On Measurements with Contradictory Results; Tracing the Roots of the Original Wholeness  313
  • A. K. Aringazin, K. M. Aringazin, A. Baskoutas, G. Brodimas, A. Jannusis & E. Vlachos, q-Deformed Harmonic Oscillator in Phase Space  329
  • M. Damjanonvic & Z. Maric, Relativistic Dynamics and Space-Time Structure of Few-Body Processes  349
  • J. Foadi, A Geometrical Approach to Bell Inequalities  357
  • L. C. B. Ryff, Some Reflections and Conjectures on E.P.R. Correlations and Realism  369
  • Franco Selleri, Complementarity vs. Causality in Space and Time  381
  • James Paul Wesley, Light Radiates as Stochastic Bursts of Photons  399

GEOPHYSICS

  • V. P. Ivankin, On the Origin and Development of the Solar System  409
  • Martin Kokus, Red-Shift Quantization and the Fractal Geometry of the Universe  425
  • H. G. Owen, Speculations on the Physical State of the Earth's Inner Core  429
  • Giovanni Scalera, Relocation of Paleopoles on Variable Radius Earth Models  463

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by Christopher Jon Bjerknes

Pages: 400
Publisher: XTX Inc.
Year: 2003
ISBN: 0971962960
ISBN: 978-0971962965

In 1997, amid much fanfare, Leo Corry announced to the world that he had uncovered proof that Albert Einstein arrived at the generally covariant field equations of gravitation, before David Hilbert. Leo Corry joined with Juergen Renn and John Stachel and published an article in the journal "Science" arguing against Hilbert's priority. Their claims were largely based on a set of printer's proofs of David Hilbert's 20 November 1915 Goettingen lecture, which Corry had uncovered. However, in this 1997 article, "Belated Decision in the Hilbert-Einstein Priority Dispute," Corry, Renn and Stachel failed to disclose the fact that these printer's proofs were mutilated, and are missing a critical part. Full disclosure of the facts reveals that even in their mutilated state, these proofs prove that Hilbert had a generally covariant theory of gravitation before Einstein, and that Einstein plagiarized these equations from Hilbert. The author of "Albert Einstein: The Incorrigible Plagiarist" focuses in on the general theory of relativity and discredits the baseless historical revisionism of Leo Corry, Juergen Renn and John Stachel. The direct comparison of primary source material demonstrates that Albert Einstein did not originate the theory of relativity. Formal mathematical proofs explain how Einstein was forced to fudge his equations in order to derive the results Paul Gerber and Johann Georg von Soldner had published long before him. Einstein did not yet have the benefit of plagiarizing David Hilbert's generally covariant field equations of gravitation and was operating under an erroneous assumption. An extensive history of the principle of equivalence proves that Einstein plagiarized this idea. The book reprints the relevant papers by Einstein, Soldner, Gerber, and Hilbert, as well as the remainder of David Hilbert's mutilated printer's proofs of his article "The Foundations of Physics". While the book presents the mathematical proofs needed to justify its claims, the non-mathematical reader will find it rich in prose and will be able to follow the arguments and the history presented.

From the Inside Flap

"In a sense, Einstein had 'appropriated' Hilbert's contribution to the gravitational field equations as a march of his own ideas--or so it would seem from the reading of his 1916 Ann. d. Phys. paper on the foundations of general relativity."--Prof. Jagdish Mehra

"[Hilbert] would soon [***] pinpoint flaws in Einstein's rather pedestrian way of dealing with the mathematics of his gravitation theory."--Dr. Tilman Sauer

". . .Gerber, who has given the correct formula for the perihelion motion of Mercury before I did."--Albert Einstein

"Remarkably, Einstein was not the first to discover the correct form of the law of warpage [***] Recognition for the first discovery must go to Hilbert."--Prof. Kip Thorne

"No unprejudiced person can deny that, in the absence of direct and incontrovertible proofs establishing his innocence, Einstein must, in view of the circumstantial evidence previously presented, stand convicted before the world as a plagiarist."--Prof. Arvid Reuterdahl

"Thus, with what is known as the special theory, if we consider as paramount factor not the detail work but the guiding thoughts by which this was inspired, then the father of this special relativity theory was undoubtedly Henri Poincare. [***] In the general theory of relativity the basic thought is that of Mach, viz. the replacement in dynamics of the law of gravitation by a law of motion. But in what Einstein built upon this basis the influence of Poincare is again manifest. [***] And in view of all these facts one does not know at which to be most astounded: the magnanimity of Poincare who was always over-anxious that there should be recognition of the labors of those who reaped where he himself had sown, the apathy of his friends after his death, or the peculiar attitude of Einstein and his coterie, exemplified by Born of Goettingen, who refers to Poincare as one of those who 'collaborated' with Einstein in the development of the relativity theory!"--Robert P. Richardson

"From these facts the conclusion seems inevitable that Einstein cannot be regarded as a scientist of real note. He is not an honest investigator."--Prof. O. E. Westin

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by Ricardo L. Carezani

Pages: 297
Publisher: Society for the Advancement of Autodynamics
Year: 2005
ISBN: 0966553349
ISBN: 978-0966553345

Websites: www.autodynamics.org

This book was conceived for the technician and layman but without losing any scientific rigor that may be of concern for the professional physicist. The conceptual details of Autodynamics have been considerably expanded upon, not just for clarification, but also to show, as simply as possible, where Einstein's mistakes originate.

Contents: Memory, Foreward, Introduction, "Truth", Introduction to AD and Philosophy, Systems in Relative Motion, Simultaneity, The Neutrino, Universal Gravitation, Big Bang, Gravitational Lens, Compton Effect, Dragging, Sting and Super String Theory, Decay, Faster than Light, Super-Kamiokande: Super-Proof for Neutrino Nonexistence, Lorentz and AD Transformation, SR's Mass Derivation Starting from Momentum, Questions or Unsolved Problems in Physics and Cosmology, A Nobel Laureate, Newton-Einstein Billiard Ball Mechanics, The Principle of Equivalence, Time Dilation.

Review:

This book, Storm in Physics (Autodynamics), and essentially the technical book, Autodynamics: Fundamental Basis for a New Relativistic Mechanics, are the culmination of the life work of Dr. Ricardo L. Carezani, a man whose work is built on the solid mathematics and reasoning of Sir Isaac Newton and other giants of physics who existed before "magical science" began to be accepted by mainstream physicists.

By "magical science" I mean physics that must resort tocreating "missing" particles and otherwise making adjustments to reality in order to have the science fit the theory. Magical sciences include, but are not limited to, such theories as General Relativity, Special Relativity and String Theory, some of the most entrenched "beliefs" held in scientific circles today.

Carezani's theory, dubbed Autodynamics, has no need for such antics as inventing particles like the neutrino (which, despite all the so-called "evidence" to the contrary, and all the palaver of scientists today, has NOT been found to exist), in order to explain how the universe works.

Dr. Carezani has not needed to create any new postulate or invent a new Theory of Relativity;contrarily, at the center of Dr. Carezani's theory is the correction of Lorentz' misunderstanding of the systems of Relative Motion and Pauli's misunderstanding in applying Einstein's incorrect equations to Decay.

In contrast to gravity as an attracting force inherent in all matter, Newton's historical "fluxion" and fundamentally, Le Sage's "mundane particle," championed later by Luis de Broglie as the "graviton" and taken up by Carezani as the "pico-graviton," creates a "pushing" force by virtue of its traveling through space and striking other bodies or particles.

According to Carezani, pico gravitons make up the majority of particles in space. As these moving pico gravitons meet physical bodies, some of them are absorbed by the particles of these bodies, making the bodies heavier over eons of years. This, essentially, creates a new Celestial Mechanics.

Many questions still unanswered by science today are answered by Autodynamics. These questions are brought up in the DVD on Dr. Carezani's work, Universal Gravitation and Autodynamics. Stripped of the mathematics used in Dr. Carezani's book, the DVD leaves you with a very clear understanding of his work and of the importance of sharing it with the world.

If physics interests you, get a copy of the book, Storm in Physics, and the DVD, Universal Gravitation and Autodynamics. If you're not into math, get the DVD. I recommend both to anyone interested in knowing how the universe really works.

You can order Storm in Physics at www.Amazon.com or both at www.bn.com or through the Society for the Advancement of Autodynamics at: www.autodynamics.org

Linda Camp
The CAMP Report
Citizens Against Media Propaganda


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by Homer B. Tilton

Publisher: Pima Community College Press (January 9, 2010)
Year: 2010
ISBN: 1599731096
ISBN: 978-1599731094

In 1905 Einstein found from relativity that there is an absolute light barrier. He reiterated his finden in 1916, writing, ...We conclude that in the theory of relativity the velocity c plays the part of limiting velocity, which can neither be reached nor exceeded by any real body. Poincar? and Lorentz did not share Einstein s view of relativity in that regard. Nor, later, did Fermi and Teller it seems. There were others who hesitated to come forward. Then in a 1921 lecture and a 1922 look, sidelights on Relativity, Einstein wrote (pp. 35- 6), Poincar? is right. The idea of the measuring-rod and the idea of the clock co-ordinated with it in the theory of relativity do not find their exact correspondence in the real world. Thus the light barrier was questioned by the same man who erected it, and the last theoretical obstacle to practical star travel was mortally wounded but few noticed. There is still a conditional light barrier, but no longer one that is impenetrable. It became clear that the second postulate of special relativity does not equate to an absolute light barrier as many continue to believe even to this day; some highly-regarded scientists continue to subscribe to this faulty logic: I believe that special relativity is correct and consequently exceeding the speed of light [by] (just accelerating more and more) is impossible, ...Don Lincoln, Fermilab, email dated 3 Feb. 2005. Such statements reflect a misunderstanding of the second postulate. The key is that the second postulate applies to photons but not to rocketships; rocketships are not macrophotons as Sachs pointed out. In the September 1971 issue of the journal Physics Today Mendel Sachs wrote about Einstein s 1921-22 change of mind as he referred to it, again in 1985, 1993 and at other times; but Sachs writings were scorned by other scientists. It was as if others wanted there to be a truly impenetrable light barrier perhaps because it seemed to hold open the exciting promise of time travel. The first author became aware of Sachs writings in 2004 and the two exchanged views for a time as reported here. This book presents a hard-science case for practical star travel. The first six chapters lay it all out in a logical and factual manner consistent with the theory of relativity. Chapters 7 & 8 outline a Grand Experiment designed to probe the light barrier. Chapters 7-9 give future-fiction accounts of possible scenarios of Humanity s first hesitant steps to the stars. Chapter 10 presents a separate argument questioning the idea of an absolute light barrier.

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by Alphonsus G. Kelly

Pages: 320
Publisher: Brown Walker Press
Year: 2005
ISBN: 1581124376
ISBN: 978-1581124378

Newton's Laws held for 300 years until Einstein developed the 'special theory of relativity' in 1905. Experiments done since then show anomalies in that theory.

This book starts with a description of the special theory of relativity. It is shown that Einstein was not the first to derive the famous equation E = mc2, which has become synonymous with his name. Next, experimental evidence that cannot be explained by special relativity is given. In the light of this evidence, the two basic postulates of the special theory of relativity on the behaviour of light are shown to be untenable. A new theory (universal relativity) is developed, which conforms to the experimental evidence.

The movement of a conductor near a pole of a magnet and the movement of that pole near the conductor does not always give the same result. It has been claimed that this contradicts relativity theory. Experiments described in this book show that it is not special relativity but another basic law of physics that is contradicted - Faraday's Law.

The Big Bang theory of the beginning of the universe is questioned and an alternative proposed. The source of much of the mysterious missing 'dark matter' that has been sought for decades by astronomers is located. An explanation of the shapes of some galaxies is proffered.


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by Petr Beckmann

Pages: 212
Publisher: Golem Press
Year: 1987
ISBN: 0911762396
ISBN: 978-0911762396

Websites: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petr_Beckmann

Arguably more than any other book, Einstein Plus Two helped launch the dissident revolution of the 1990s.  As a consequence of this book, Beckmann founded Galilean Electrodynamics in 1990, a time when several other dissident journals made their start.  Beckmann's concept of the relativity principle without Einsteinian observer dependence serves as the major unifying theme.  It stresses the idea of motion with respect to the local field rather than to the observer of special relativity theory.

The book is divided into three sections: Einstein Plus Zero, One and Two.  In Einstein Plus Zero, Beckmann reexamines the historic experiments of Bradley, Fresnel, Fizeau, Airy, and of course, Michelson with Morley and Gale, and shows how understanding motion with respect to the local field makes sense of them all.  In Einstein Plus Zero, he considers quantization of electron orbits, electromagnetic mass, the meaning of Planck's constant and the Schr?dinger Equation from a proper understanding of central motion.  Finally in Einstein Plus Two, the large questions of gravitation, Mercury's perihelion, the Titius-Bode Series and inertia are addressed.

"There is so much to enjoy in this book. If you get your hands on this book, even for a moment, at least read the preface and the introduction. They are brilliant and short. His 'Grandiose Theory of the Railroad Track' shows Beckmann's humor and his insight. I also love Mr. Beckmann's simple statement that 'a theory that does not recognize the equality of action and reaction cannot, without apology, invoke the conservation of momentum.'" [p.77] - Larry Koler, Amazon

 

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by William Lane Craig, Quentin Smith

Pages: 240
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2007
ISBN: 0415701740
ISBN: 978-0415701747

Einstein, Relativity and Absolute Simultaneity is an anthology of original essays by an international team of leading philosophers and physicists who, on the centenary of Albert Einstein?s Special Theory of Relativity, come together in this volume to reassess the contemporary paradigm of the relativistic concept of time. A great deal has changed since 1905 when Einstein proposed his Special Theory of Relativity, and this book offers a fresh reassessment of Special Relativity?s relativistic concept of time in terms of epistemology, metaphysics and physics. There is no other book like this available; hence philosophers and scientists across the world will welcome its publication.

Contents:

  • Introduction 1
  •   1 William Lane Craig: The Metaphysics of Special Relativity: Three Views 11
  •   2 Craig Callender: Finding "Real" Time in Quantum Mechanics 50
  •   3 Quentin Smith: A Radical Rethinking of Quantum Gravity: Rejecting Einstein's Relativity and Unifying Bohmian Quantum Mechanics With a Bell-neo-Lorentzian Absolute Time, Space and Gravity 73
  •   4 Antony Valentini: Hidden Variables and the Large-Scale Structure of Space-Time 125
  •   5 Tim Maudlin: Non-Local Correlartions in Quantum Theory: How the Trick Might be Done 156
  •   6 Franco Selleri: The Zero Acceleration Discontinuity and Absolute Simultaneity 180
  •   7 Tom Van Flandern: Global Positioning System and the Twins' Paradox 212
  •   8 Michael Tooley: A Defense of Absolute Simultaneity 229
  •   9 Richard Swinburne: Cosmic Simultaneity 244
  • 10 Thomas L. Crisp: Presentism, Eternalism and Relativity Physics 262
  • 11 John Lucas: The Special Theory and Absolute Simultaneity 279
  • Index 291

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by Hans C. Ohanian

Pages: 256
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Year: 2008
ISBN: 0393062937
ISBN: 978-0393062939

Fresh insights into aspects of Einstein we don't usually consider: his mistakes and the role they played in the discovery of his theories.

Although Einstein was the greatest genius of the 20th century, many of his ground-breaking discoveries were blighted by mistakes, ranging from serious misconceptions in physics to blatant errors in mathematics. For instance, Einstein's first theoretical proof of the famous formula E = mc? was incomplete and only approximately valid; he struggled with this problem for many years, but he never found a complete proof (better mathematicians did). In this provocative forensic biography, Hans Ohanian dissects this and other mistakes and places them in the context of Einstein's turbulent life and times. Einstein was often navigating in a fog of irrational and mystical inspirations, but his profound intuition about physics permitted him to reach his goal despite?and sometimes because of-the mistakes he made along the way. Einstein's uncanny ability to use his mistakes subconsciously as stepping-stones toward his revolutionary theories was one hallmark of his genius. 25 illustrations.

A close examination of Einstein's work, emphasizing the errors and wrong turns that even colleagues overlooked.Ohanian, a former editor of the American Journal of Physics, proceeds through the years, rarely missing a paper, speech, interview or controversy. The author covers many fields, because Einstein made not one but several breakthrough discoveries; his Nobel, in fact, was for the photoelectric effect, not relativity. Einstein admitted that mathematics was not his strong suit, but beyond the torrent of errors in that area, Ohanian also finds mistakes in physical assumptions that range from oversimplification to outright nuttiness. Max Planck, working as a journal editor, read the unknown Einstein's revolutionary 1905 paper on special relativity and found a major error in the discussion of relativistic mass. Recognizing the paper's importance, Planck approved it and later worked out a correct recalculation for which he has never received credit. Because of Einstein's fame, everyone believes he discovered the equation linking mass to energy. In fact, other physicists knew of it for years, and his 1905 proof was incomplete; once Max Von Laue produced a complete proof in 1911, Einstein adopted it. Ohanian emphasizes two absolute laws of research. One: If a scientist makes a brilliant discovery, everyone forgives mistakes he made along the way. Two: If he becomes a scientific superstar, he gets credit for everything in his field. Thus Einstein gets credit for everything connected with relativity, including earlier discoveries and those of colleagues who improved his work. Dennis Overbye's Einstein in Love (2000) gives the best popular account of his science, while Walter Isaacson's bestselling Einstein (2007) is the best on his life. Ohanion's book delves more deeply into physics and into Einstein's thought processes, so readers will have to pay close attention.A sophisticated overview of modern physics, including more of Einstein's missteps than readers usually encounter.


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by Bill Gaede

Pages: 84
Publisher: ViNi
Year: 2014
ISBN: 978-0-9704960-2-8



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by Oleg D. Jefimenko

Pages: 352
Publisher: Electret Scientific Company
Year: 1997; 2nd ed 2004
ISBN: 0917406249
ISBN: 978-0917406249

Websites: www.as.wvu.edu/coll03/phys/www/OJ/jefimenk.html

This book presents a comprehensive exposition of the theory of electromagnetic retardation and offers a significant novel approach to the formulation, development and use of the theory of special relativity. The book is divided into two parts. The first part, Chapters 1 to 5, presents the fundamentals of the theory of electromagnetic retardation with emphasis on recently developed electromagnetic relations and mathematical techniques. Employing as the starting point the retarded electromagnetic field integrals rather than the traditional Lienard-Wiechert potentials and using the newest mathematical methods for operations with retarded integrals, the theory is presented in a clear and logical manner, and the applications of the theory are demonstrated by numerous well-chosen original illustrative examples.

As Professor Jefimenko shows, the theory of electromagnetic retardation leads to, and duplicates, many electromagnetic relations that are customarily considered to constitute consequences of relativistic electrodynamics. Much of the first part of the book is devoted to establishing a bridge between the theory of electromagnetic retardation and the theory of relativity. In the second part of the book, Chapters 6 to 11, all the fundamental equations of the special relativity theory, including equations of relativistic electrodynamics and mechanics, are derived in a natural and direct way from equations of electromagnetic retardation and from electromagnetic force and energy equations without any postulates, conjectures, or hypotheses. As a result, the theory of special relativity acquires a new physical and mathematical base and becomes united with Maxwellian electromagnetism into one simple, clear, and harmonious theory of electromagnetic phenomena and mechanical interactions between rapidly moving bodies. Numerous well-chosen original illustrative examples demonstrate various applications of the relativistic electrodynamics and relativistic mechanics developed in this part of the book.

The new approach to the formulations of the theory of relativity presented in this book makes it necessary to reexamine the conventional interpretation of some of the key aspects of the special relativity theory. One of the most significant results of this reexamination is that, although the idea of Lorentz length contraction played an important part in Einstein's approach to the formulation of the theory of relativity, this idea is not an integral part of the theory of relativity itself. Another equally significant result of this reexamination, based on an analysis of a dozen elementary electromagnetic clocks, is that the rate of the moving clocks depends both on the velocity and on the construction of the clocks, so that although all the clocks examined in the book run slow when in motion, only some clocks conform to Einstein's time-dilation formula; others do not.

Finally, the novel approach to the formulation of the special relativity theory developed in this book leads to the conclusion that gravitational phenomena are subject to essentially the same relativistic relations as are the electromagnetic phenomena. Based on this conclusion, a covariant formulation of Newton-Heaviside's gravitational theory is developed and presented in the last chapter of the book.

An Appendix to the book contains an analysis of the physical nature of electric and magnetic forces and presents a novel interpretation of the "near-action" mechanism of electromagnetic interactions.


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by Michael C. Duffy, Joseph Levy

Pages: 438
Publisher: PD Publications, Liverpool, UK
Year: 2008
ISBN: 1873694105

Websites: www.physicsfoundations.org

Researches undertaken during the last 20 years have confirmed that space possesses physical properties even where it is devoid of ordinary matter. In addition to the well known properties of permittivity, permeability and the ability to transmit electromagnetic waves, other features have been more recently associated with the nature of space. These include the Casimir Effect and a significant amount of energy. This medium, devoid of any trace of ordinary matter, is usually referred to as "Physical Vacuum", "Plenum" or "Cosmic Substratum" along with other appellations. Despite the veil of equivalent terms, these names obviously refer to the Ether, a medium conceived in antiquity, which received much attention from Science between the 17th and early 20th centuries. Today it is commonly understood throughout the academic community that Einstein excluded once and for all the ether from modern physics with his Special Theory of 1905. There is a widespread, unjustified assumption that ether is conceptually incompatible with Relativity, though Einstein developed an equivalent concept in the context of the General Theory and his later work. We may add that Einstein?s ether concept has inspired many modern physicists though others follow another direction of thought. The aim of this first volume of papers is to examine the different paths by which the modern ether concept has been developed and to highlight the part it plays in major departments of 21st C physics. The evidence for its existence is reviewed, and it is hoped, widespread misconceptions concerning ether are corrected. It is anticipated that the emerging modern concept of ether will play a fundamental part in the development of 21st C physical science. - Back cover

A book dealing with experimental and theoretical studies devoted to the exploration of the modern ether concept, evidence of its reality and implications for modern physics.

Contents:
  -5- Editor's Foreword
  -7- Introduction
-13- Ether as a Disclosing Model, Michael C. Duffy
-47- Einstein's New Ether 1916-1955, Ludwik Kostro
-69- Basic Concepts for a Fundamental Aether Theory, Joseph Levy
-125- Aether Theory and the Principle of Relativity, Joseph Levy
-139- Ether Theory of Gravitation, Why and How, Mayeul Arminjon, Laboratoire Sols, Solides, Structures, Risques, CNRS & Universite de Grenoble, BP 53, F-38041, Grenoble Cedex 9 France
-203- A Dust Universe Solution to the Dark Energy Problem, James G. Gilson, school of mathematical sciences, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E14NS, United Kingdom E-mail: j.g.gilson@qmul.ac.uk
-217- Eddington Ether and Number, Raul A. Simon, LAMB, Santiago Chile
-257- The dynamical Space-time as a Field Configuration in a Background Space-time, A. N. Petrov, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Missouri,-Columbia, Columbia MO 65211, USA and Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Universitetskii pr., 13 Moskow 119992 Russia E-mail: anpetrov@rol.ru
-305- Locality and Electromagnetic Momentum in Critical Tests of Special Relativity, Gianfranco Spavieri, Jesus Quintero, Arturo Sanchez, Jose Ayazo, & Georges T. Gillies, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Virginia, PO Box 400746, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, USA E-mail: gtg@Virginia.edu
-357- Correlations Leading to Space-time Structure in an Ether, J. E. Carroll, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, CB2 1PZ, United Kingdom, E.mail: jec1000@cam.ac.u
-407- Reasons for Gravitational Mass and the Problem of Quantum Gravity, Volodymyr Krasnoholovets


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by Myron W. Evans

Pages: 388
Publisher: Abramis
Year: 2007
ISBN: 1845492145

Einstein was Right! Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are the two main theories of physics that describe the universe in which we live. Attempts at combining them have been made since the 1920's with no success. Albert Einstein spent much of his later years searching for the key to unification. He never fully accepted quantum theory and maintained it was incomplete. Quantum theory has supplied answers to questions involving basic particles and electromagnetism. Relativity has explained gravity and the unity of space and time. However, the two have not, until Evans developed a new paradigm and the equations to prove it, been combined. Einstein showed that gravitation is the curving of spacetime, not an attractive force between masses. Evans has showed that electromagnetism is the spinning of spacetime. It is not a force superimposed upon the spacetime rather it is a property of spacetime itself. Using Cartan differential geometry, Evans describes Einstein's gravitation and quantum electromagnetics in the same equations. All the basic equations of physics emerge from General Relativity using Cartan's geometry.This book describes the basics of special relativity, quantum mechanics, general relativity, and the geometry used to describe them. Then it details the basics of Evans' discoveries and their implications. Laurence G. Felker is a controls engineer and has studied physics for his whole professional career. His previous published work has been in technical journals and this is his first physics book.

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by Milo M. Wolff

Pages: 251
Publisher: Technotran Press
Year: 1989 / Revised 1994
ISBN: 0962778710
ISBN: 978-0962778711

Part I describes the fundamental laws underlying science. The emphasis is on intuitive understanding of the foundations of scientific knowledge to enable deciphering of Mother Nature's designs for the physical universe. It explains the six fundamental laws: Conservation of Energy, Gravity, Coulomb's force, Newton's laws, Quantum Mechanics, and Special Relativity. The book follows a trail of scientific ideas and clues from the Greeks to Newton, Mach, Clifford, Einstein, Dirac, and Feynman to Modern galactic astronomy.

Part II discusses cosmology, space and the universe. It explores their enigmas and paradoxes. Dr Wolff's role is a friendly guide to the reader, enabling her/him to understand the machinery behind Nature's laws, and to help solve the puzzles which have confounded scientists over the years. The century-old controversy of wave structure or substance structure of particles is examined and it is shown that a wave structure is the origin of the natural laws. The mysterious role of space itself is explored and the reader is asked and helped to choose between truth and prejudice.


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by Mac McCoin

Pages: 148
Publisher: Author House
Year: 2009
ISBN: 449056431
ISBN: 978-1449056438



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by Michele Barone, Franco Selleri

Pages: 620
Publisher: Plenum Press
Year: 1994
ISBN: 0306448254
ISBN: 978-0306448256

The Olympia conference Frontiers of Fundamental Physics was a gathering of about a hundred scientists who carry on research in conceptually important areas of physical science (they do "fundamental physics").  Most of them were physicists, but also historians and philosphers of science were well represented.  An important fraction of the participants could be considered "heretical" because they disagreed with the validity of one or several fundamental assumptions of modern physics.  Common to all participants was an excellent scientific level coupled with a remarkable intellectula honesty: we are proud to present to the readers this certainly unique book.

Alternative ways of considering fundamental matters should of course be vitally important for the progress of science, unless one wanted to admit that physics at the end of the XXth century has already obtained the final truth, a very unlikely possibility even if one accepted the doubtful idea of the existence of a "final" truth.  The merits of the Olympia conference should therefore not be judged a priori in a positive or in a negative way depending on one's refusal or acceptance, respectively, of basic principles of contemporary sience, but considered after reading the actual new proposals and evidence there presented.  They seem very important to us... - From the Preface.

Contents:

ASTROPHYSICS: ANOMOLOUS-REDSHIFTS

  • Empirical Evidence on the Creation of Galaxies and Quasars, Dr. Halton C. Arp 1
  • Periodicity in Extragalactic Redshifts, William M. Napier 13
  • Quasar Spectra: Black Holes or Nonstandard Models?, Jack W. Sulentic 27
  • Configurations and Redshifts of Galaxies, Miroslaw Zabierowski 37
  • Isominkowskian Representaion of Cosmological Redshifts and the Internal Red-Blue-Shifts of Quasars, Dr. Ruggero Maria Santilli 41
  • The Relativistic Electron Pair Theory of Matter and its Implications for Cosmology, Dr. Ernest J. Sternglass 59
  • Are Quasars Manifesting a de Sitter Redshift?, John B. Miller & Thomas E. Miller 67
  • What, if Anything, Is the Anthropic Cosmological Principle Telling Us?, Silvio Bergia 73
  • Large Anomalous Redshift and Zero-Point Radiation, Dr. Peter F. Browne 83
  • Theoretical Basis for a Non-Expanding and Euclidean Universe, Thomas B. Andrews 89
  • Light Propagation in an Expanding Universe, Alexandros Paparodopoulos 99
  • Fornax - The Companion of the Milky Way and the Question of Its Standard Motion, Miroslaw Zabierowski 105
  • Cosmological Redshifts and the Law of Corresponding States, Victor Clube 107

RELATIVITY: ENERGY AND TIME

  • Did the Apple Fall?, H?seyin Yilmaz 115
  • Investigations With Lasers, Atomic Clocks and Computer Calculations of Curves Spacetime and of the Differences between the Gravitation Theories of Yilmaz and of Einstein, Prof. Carroll O. Alley 125
  • Gravity is the Simplest Thing!, Dr. David F. Roscoe 139
  • Fourdimensional Elasticity: Is It General Relativity?, Angelo Tartaglia 147
  • Universality of the Lie-Isotropic Symmetries for Deformed Minkowskian Metrics, Ascar K. Aringazin & K. M. Aringazen 153
  • Hertz's Special Relativity and Physical Reality, Dr. Ing. Constantin I. Mocanu 163
  • From Relativistic Paradoxes to Absolute Space and Time Physics, Horst E. Wilhelm 171
  • Theories Equivalent to Special Relativity, Dr. Franco Selleri 181
  • The Physical Meaning of Albert Einstein's Relativistic Ether Concept, Prof. Ludwig Kostro 193
  • The Limiting Nature of Light-Velocity as the Causal Factor Underlying Relativity, Trevor Morris 203
  • The Ether Revisited, Adolphe Martin & Dr. C. Roy Keys 209
  • What Is and What Is Not Essential in Lorentz's Relativity, Jan Czerniawski 217
  • Vacuum Substratum in Electrodynamics and Quantum Mechanics - Theory and Experiment, Horst E. Wilhelm 223
  • The Influence of Idealism in 20th Century Science, Heather McCouat & Simon J. Prokhovnik 233

GEOPHYSICS: EXPANDING EARTH

  • Creeds of Physics, Samuel Warren Carey 241
  • Earth Complexity vs. Plate Tectonic Simplicity, Giancarlo Scalera 257
  • An Evolutionary Earth Expansion Hypothesis, Dr. Stavros T. Tassos 275
  • Global Models of the Expanding Earth, Klaus Vogel 281
  • An Orogenic Model Consistent with Earth Expansion. Carol Strutinski 287
  • Earth Expansion Requires Increase in Mass, John K. Davidson 295
  • Principles of Plate Movements on the Expanding Earth, Jan Koziar 301
  • The Origin of Granite and Continetal Masses in an Expanding Earth, Lorence G. Collins 309
  • The Primordially Hydridic Character of Our Planet and Proving It by Deep Drilling, C. Warren Hunt 315
  • Possible Relation Between Earth Expansion and Dark Matter, Stanislaw Ciechanowicz & Jan Koziar 321
  • Earth Expansion and the Prediction of Earthquakes and Volcanicism, Dr. Martin Kokus 327
  • Tension-gravitational Model of Island Arcs, Jan Koziar & Leszek Jamrozik 335

FIELDS, PARTICLES: SPACE-TIME STRUCTURES

  • Electromagnetic Interactions and Particle Physics, Asim O. Barut 339
  • Isotropic and Genotopic Relativistic Theory, Asterios Jannussis & Anna Sotiropoulos 347
  • A Look at Frontiers of High Enrgy Physics: From the GeV (109 eV) to PeV (1015 eV) and Beyond, Prof. Michele Barone 359
  • An Approach to Finite-Size Particles with Spin, Bronislaw Sredniawa 369
  • A New High Energy Scale?, Vladimir Kadyshevsky 377
  • On the Space-Time Structure of the Electron, Dr. Martin Rivas 383
  • Physics Without Physical Constants, Prof. Edward Kapuscik 387
  • The Relation Between Information, Time and Space Inferred from Universal Phenomena in Solid-State Physics, Gerhard Dorda 393
  • Quantum-Like Behavior of Charged Particles in a Magnetic Field and Observation of Discreet Forbidden States in the Classical Mechanical Domain, Ram K. Varma 401
  • Unipolar Induction and Weber's Electrodynamics, Prof. Andre K. T. Assis & Dario S. Thober 409
  • Impact of Maxwell's Equation of Displacement Current on Electromagnetic Laws and Comparison of the Maxwellian Waves with Our Model of Dipolic Particles, Lefteris A. Kaliambos 415
  • Direct Calculation of H and the Complete Self Energy of the Electron from Fluid Models, Dr. William M. Honig 423
  • Interbasis "Sphere-Cylinder" Expansions for the Oscillator in the Three Dimensional Space of Constant Positive Curvature, George S. Pogosyan, A. N. Sissakian & S. I. Vinitsky 429
  • Pancharatnam's Topological Phase in Relation to Dynamical Phase in Polarization Optics, Susanne Klein, Wolfgang Dultz and Heirun Schmitzer 437
  • On the Connection Betwee Classical and Quantum Mechanics, Dr. Andrzej Horzela 443
  • Discrete Time Realizations of Quantum Mechanics and Their Possible Experimental Tests, Carl Wolf 449
  • Heraclitus' Vision - Schr?dinger's Version, Pitter Gr?ff 459

QUANTUM PHYSICS: DUALITY AND LOCALITY

  • Is It Possible to Believe in Both Orthodox Quantum Theory and History?, Euan J. Squires 465
  • A New Logic for Quantum Mechanics?, Eftichios Bitsakis 475
  • Dangerous Effects of the Incomprehensibility in Microphysics, Jenner Barretto Bastos-Filho 485
  • Classical Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, Vladimir K. Ignatovich 493
  • Rabi Oscillations Described by de Broglian Probabilities, Mirjana Bozic & Dusan Arsenovic 503
  • A Test of the Complimentarity Principle in Single-Photon States of Light, Yutaka Mizobuchi & Yoshiyuki Othake 511
  • Experiments With Entangled Two-Photon States from Type-II Parametric Down Conversion Evidence for Wave-Particle Unity, Prof. Carroll O. Alley, T. E. Kiess, A. V. Sergienko & Y. H. Shih 519
  • Note on Wave-Particle Unity, H. Yilmaz
  • Correlation Functions and Einstein Locality, Augusto Garuccio & Liberatot De Caro 529
  • Optical Test's of Bell's Inequalities: Cloing the Poor Correlation Loophole, Susana F. Huelga, Miguel Ferrero & Prof. Emilio Santos  537
  • Atomic Cascade Experiments with Two-Channel Polarizers and Quantum Mechanical Nonlocality, Mohammad Ardehali 545
  • New Tests on Locality and Empty Waves, Ramon Risco-Delgado 555
  • Wave-Particle Duality, Prof. Marius Borneas 561
  • Quantum Correlations from a Logical Point of View, Nikos A. Tambakis 565
  • Local Realism and the Crucila Experiment, Yaov Ben-Dov 571
  • The Space of Local Hidden Variables Can Limit Non-Locality And What Next?, Milan Vinduska 575
  • How the Quantum of Action Cannot Be a Metric One, Constantin Antonopoulos 583
  • The Ghostly Solution of the Quantum Paradoxes and Its Experimental Verification, Raoul Nakhmanson 591

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by Myron W. Evans

Pages: 188
Publisher: Abramis
Year: 2006
ISBN: 1845491319
ISBN: 978-1845491314

Websites: www.aias.us/index.php?goto=showPageByTitle&pageTitle=Home

This book is the first to describe a very successful objective unified field theory which emerged in 2003 and which is already mainstream physics - Einstein Cartan Evans (ECE) field theory. The latter completes the well known work of Einstein and Cartan, who from 1925 to 1955 sought to unify field theory in physics with the principles of general relativity. These principles are based on the need for objectivity in natural philosophy, were first suggested by Francis Bacon in the sixteenth century and developed into general relativity in about 1915. In this year, using Riemann geometry, Einstein and Hilbert independently arrived at an objective field equation for gravitation.Since then there have been many attempts to unify the 1915 gravitational theory with the other three fundamental fields: electromagnetism, the weak and strong fields. As described for the first time in this book, unification is achieved straightforwardly with the principles of standard Cartan geometry and the Evans Ansatz. The latter shows that electromagnetism is spinning spacetime, gravitation is curving spacetime and that they are unified with the structure (or master) equations of Cartan. Quantum mechanics is unified with general relativity using the Evans Lemma and wave equation.Technical appendices and charts are provided which show how all the major equations of physics are obtained from the ECE field theory and two introductory chapters describe the background mathematics from an elementary level. In this third volume, ECE theory is extended to the Sagnac effect and Faraday disc generator to show that electrodynamics is spinning space-time in general relativity. These two effects are difficult to explain with special relativity. A simplified dielectric ECE theory is developed and applied for example to cosmology.One chapter is dedicated to a convenient summary of all the details of Cartan geometry needed to develop ECE theory. The important topic of spin connection resonance (SCR) is introduced and applied to new energy and counter-gravitation. Finally wave mechanics is developed in ECE theory.

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by Konrad Rudnicki

Pages: 177
Publisher: C. Roy Keys Inc. (Apeiron)
Year: 2001
ISBN: 0968368964

Websites: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Rudnicki

Based on papers originally presented at an international conference on Redshifts and gravitation in a relativistic universe, held Sept. 17-20, 1999, Cesena, Italy, this book features essays by Prof. Andre K. T. Assis, Henrik Broberg, Dr. Franco Selleri, Dr. Tom Van Flandern, Dr. Halton C. Arp, Bernard R. Bligh and others.

Editors' Introduction

Fritz Zwicky, the great 20th century astronomer, astrophysicist and theoretical physicist, also dealt with methodology of research, which is considered to be one of branches of the philosophy of science. Zwicky, unlike most philosophers working in this area, not only discussed methods used by others but applied his methodological ideas to a new practical approach in his highly successful scientific research. This approach helped him to discover new objects and new facts. His activity in the fields of the exact sciences and of philosophy in science formed an integral whole. He advocated taking all possible, even exotic hypotheses into consideration, and never adhering only to a single hypothesis. In his Morphological Astronomy he wrote the following words, which should be taken as a fundamental principle in all research:

If rain begins to fall on previously dry areas on the earth, the water on the ground will make its way from high levels to low levels in a variety of ways. Some of these ways will be more or less obvious, predetermined by pronounced mountain formations and valleys, while others will appear more or less at random. Whatever courses are being followed by the first waters, their existence will largely prejudice those chosen by later floods. A system of ruts will consequently be established which has a high degree of permanence. The water rushing to the sea will sift the earth in these ruts and leave the extended layers of earth outside essentially unexplored. Just as the rains open up the earth here and there, ideas unlock the doors to various aspects of life, fixing the attention of men on some aspects while partly or entirely ignoring others. Once man is in a rut he seems to have the urge to dig even deeper, and what often is most unfortunate, he does not take the excavated debris with him like the waters, but throws it over the edge, thus covering up the unexplored territory and making it impossible for him to see outside his rut. The mud he is throwing may even hit his neighbours in the eyes, intentionally or unintentionally and make it difficult for them to see anything at all.

This volume, devoted to the problems of relativity, gravitation and related issues in physics, presents papers delivered and/or discussed during the conference ?Redshifts and Gravitation in a Relativistic Universe? held in Cesena on September 17-20th 1999. In a way, this conference represents a response to Zwicky?s method, outlined above. Its main aim was to serve as a forum for ideas and theories that go against the mainstream of science. Some of the theories are already cast in their final form; some are just rough ideas still undergoing development. Not all of them will prove correct, just as not all of the mainstream theories are wrong. Only reality is an absolute truth, while our theories have only approximate validity. The great German thinker Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote: not distinguishing between reality and theory is like not distinguishing between a building and its scaffolding. Theories are tools, not objects of scientific investigation, but indispensable tools. Only a wide variety of tools can enable us to carry out such a complicated task as scientific research.

In addition, a wide variety of observed phenomena have to be taken into consideration in a properly organized scientific investigation. Some phenomena which are seldom mentioned by others?such as quantization of redshifts?are discussed in this volume.

Some of the papers are presented here in more or less the same form in which they were delivered during the conference. Some were reworked more recently and take a final form different from the presentation. No minutes of the extensive discussion in the conference auditorium or the more lively discussions that continued during breaks and around dinner tables were recorded. In some cases the discussions are reflected in the final shape of the papers. Two of the papers included here were not presented as such during the conference, but their content was mentioned and taken under consideration during the debate. This volume therefore should not be regarded as a formal proceedings of the Cesena Conference, although it does fairly reflect the substance of the event.

In his contribution A.K.T. Assis proposes the principle of physical proportions, according to which all laws of physics can depend only on the ratio of known quantities of the same type. An alternative formulation is that all universal constants of physics (G, c, Planck?s constant, Boltzmann?s constant, etc.) must depend on cosmological or microscopic properties of the universe. There is a discussion of laws satisfying this principle and of other laws which do not follow it, implying that the corresponding theories must be incomplete. The author shows how to implement this principle by means of his theory of Relational Mechanics, as set out in the book of the same title (Apeiron, Montreal, 1999).

The paper presented by H. Broberg is based on the equivalence between gravitation and acceleration, initially suggested by Einstein. This introduces a new geometric approach to quantum gravity, the missing link to unification, extended to a discussion of energy flows in the vacuum as the key mechanism of the gravitational process. His ideas also relate to string theory in a scenario where the extra dimension, representing the ?thickness of the line,? can be allowed to exist from the Planck length up to the Hubble scale.

An alternative picture of the structure of galaxies is proposed in the paper by Marek Biesiada, Konrad Rudnicki and Jacek Syska. The authors discuss the possible explanation of dynamical properties of galaxies with the theory of dilatonic balls using six-dimensional space.

In the paper ?Electromagnetism and Cosmology? by Edward Kapu?cik a rather convincing argument is given that the correct unification of electromagnetism and gravity should start from some elementary and basic proto-fields which are neither electromagnetic or gravitational fields. The presently observed division of fundamental interactions into gravitational and electromagnic must be achieved by constructing composite fields from the proto-fields. In addition to the field equations, the gauge conditions also express physical laws and determine these composite fields. The last statement contradicts the point of view commonly adopted, which treats the gauge fields as auxiliary quantities.

Two papers by F. Selleri show that transformations of space and time between inertial systems exist which are almost empirically equivalent to the Lorentz transformations. They contain a free parameter e1, the coefficient of x in the transformation of time. He shows that Michelson type experiments, aberration, occultation of Jupiter satellites, and radar ranging of planets are insensitive to the choice of e1. An exception is represented by experiments in slowly accelerated frames, e.g., those concerning the Sagnac effect. The best choice emerging from Selleri?s work is where the parameter e1 = 0, i.e., a theory different from Special Relativity.

One of the goals of the Cesena conference was to find common ground among the dissidents beyond their certitude that some mainstream models are wrong. That proved surprisingly difficult, and the discussions showed why?we differed about which fundamental starting points were a valid basis for building models. Should model-building be driven my math or by physics? Are singularities allowed by reality? Can matter and energy be created or destroyed? Must the causality principle be respected? And so forth. One session on the last day of the conference was devoted to a discussion of these points, and we found that no unanimity existed about any of them. That led directly to the contribution by Van Flandern, ?Physics has its Principles,? which attempts to examine several such fundamental principles and show the consequences in each case of making a wrong assumption about its applicability or non-applicability. Whether or not this initial effort brings dissident views closer, it has certainly highlighted the points that must be resolved for any hope of a convergence of models and viewpoints in the future.

Many physicists point to the proper functioning of the International Atomic Time system (TAI) in order to support the postulate of Special Relativity Theory about the one-way isotropy of light velocity in every inertial system, which has never been demonstrated. Contrary to this view, Manaresi demonstrates that the proper functioning of the TAI system does not imply the one-way isotropy of light on the moving Earth. This means that the second postulate of Special Relativity still remains merely conventional.

Astronomical observations show that some fundamental cosmic properties come in discrete values. The ratio of observed properties, such as redshift or mass, for example, yields a ubiquitous factor of 1.23. In the paper by A. and J Rub?i? and H. Arp in this volume the properties of fundamental particles such as leptons and quarks are examined. The surprising result is that they also obey this ?quantization? rule. While there is no current explanation, these empirical results point to similar physical laws which extend from the smallest to the largest entities in the universe. This may lead to a physical understanding of redshift quantization.

A very straightforward paper by K. Rudnicki, W. God?owski and A. Magdziarz presents a statistical elaboration of a very small sample of objects within the Iwanowska lines of galaxies and globular clusters. It shows that globular clusters, even located together with galaxies on the same lines, do not show redshift periodisation, whereas the galaxies do show the periodisation.

B. Bligh starts with some basic notions of thermodynamics to expose some of the errors made by cosmologists. Thermodynamic calculations require an energy balance. He then presents calculations on the Hot Big Bang Theory using data provided by cosmologists. The results are presented in a table and graphs which show that the Big Bang Theory cannot be true. Mr. Bligh also explains that thermodynamic calculations are most easily done with the aid of a temperature-entropy diagram for hydrogen, a method that is demonstrated in detail in his book The Big Bang Exploded!

Lastly, the paper by Cardone and Mignani deals with a problem that has been the subject of long-standing debate in the literature, namely the possibility of a breakdown of local Lorentz invariance (a subject revived in recent years, e.g., by S. Coleman, S.L. Glashow and R. Jackiw). In their paper, Cardone and Mignani report the preliminary positive results of an experiment which seems to evidence a DC voltage across a conductor induced by the static magnetic field of a coil. This intriguing finding ought, of course, to be confirmed by further independent tests, aimed at excluding possible gravitational effects, among the other things.

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Publisher: Thierry De Mees
Year: 2011


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In this book, I study the motion laws of masses where no direct mutual contact occur, but only the gravitation-related fields. We will discover a second field of gravitation, called cogravitation field, or gravitomagnetic field, or Heaviside field, or what I prefer to call Gyrotation, which form a whole theory, completing the classic gravitation theory to what we could call the Gyro-gravitation Theory.

A model is developed by the use of mass fluxes, in analogy with energy fluxes. By this model the transfer of gravitational angular movement can be found, and by that, the fundament for an analogy with the electromagnetic equations. These equations will allow us to elucidate an important number of never earlier explained cosmic phenomena.

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"Within a few pages we will be aware of the reason why our solar system is nearly flat, and why some galaxies are flat as well with in the centre a more spherical bulge. Furthermore we will know why the galaxy becomes spiralled, and why some galaxies or clusters  get strange matrix shapes. And a simple calculation will make clear why the stars of flat galaxies have approximately a constant speed around the centre, solving at the same time the ?dark mass? problem of these galaxies.

We will also get more insight why the spirals of galaxies have got so few windings around the centre, in spite of the elevated age of the galaxy. Moreover we will discover the reason for the shape of the remnants of some exploding supernovae. When they explode, the ejected masses called remnants, get the shape of a twin wheel or a twin lobe with a central ring.

Next, some calculations concerning certain binary pulsars follow, these are sets of two stars twisting around each other.

We get an explanation for the fact that some fast spinning stars cannot disintegrate totally, and also a description of the cannibalization process of binary pulsars: the one compact star can indeed absorb the other, gaseous star while emitting bursts of gasses at the poles.

An apparent improbable consequence of the Gyrotation theory is that mutual repulsion of masses is possible. We predict the conditions for this, which will allow us understanding how the orbit deflexion of the planets goes in its work.

Furthermore we will bring the proof that Gyrotation is very similar to the special relativity principle of Einstein, allowing a readier look on how the relativity theory looks like in reality. The conclusions from both, Gyrotation Theory and Relativity Theory are however totally different, even somehow complementary, but not always recognised as such by the scientific world.

Also more detailed calculations for fast spinning stars, black holes, their orbits and their event horizons are calculated. "

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