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Author: Hermann Bondi Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486240215 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 193
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This radically reoriented and popular presentation of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity derives its concepts from Newtonian ideas rather than by opposing them. It demonstrates that time is relative rather than absolute, that high speeds affect the nature of time, and that acceleration affects speed, time, and mass. Very little mathematics is required, and 60 illustrations augment the text.
Author: Hermann Bondi Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486240215 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 193
Book Description
This radically reoriented and popular presentation of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity derives its concepts from Newtonian ideas rather than by opposing them. It demonstrates that time is relative rather than absolute, that high speeds affect the nature of time, and that acceleration affects speed, time, and mass. Very little mathematics is required, and 60 illustrations augment the text.
Author: Walter Edwards Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 9781465358134 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 116
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The conventional interpretation of modern physics is difficult to comprehend because it is not consistent with our sense based paradigm for physical reality (i.e., common sense). For example, the conventional interpretation of special relativity assumes time travel to the past is possible, while it is obviously not possible according to our common sense paradigm. In Physical Reality and Common Sense, John Bell's preferred frame interpretation of special relativity and quantum mechanics, supported by the now known structure of the universe, is used to construct an entirely new description of physical reality that will change the very foundations of modern physics.
Author: H. E. Retic Publisher: ISBN: 9781588202352 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 440
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Much of this book was written a long time ago when the author first became aware of the concepts of Special and General Relativity. At the time he assumed that the subject was well thought out and understood by people more knowledgeable and probably more intelligent than himself. His goal was to learn from them and to understand the phenomena that was being described. He could not, however, accept the prevalent idea that the workings of Nature were beyond the ability of mere mortals to understand at the 'common sense' level. As he studied the subject, he learned that this dictum was an intellectual 'con game' by men who were acting in the manner of a priesthood defending the 'true faith' rather than scientists and who, when challenged on points which a bright physics or engineering student would easily understand, showed a rather limited ability to reason and covered their limitations by asserting that it was the challenger's limitations which prevented understanding. The dictum is not true, the mechanisms by which Nature operates are, for the most part, easily understood by reasonably bright (and interested) high school students, and the necessary mathematics and arguments to evaluate their validity of the are within knowledge of sophomore students of engineering and/or physics.(A knowledge of Integral Calculus, Elementary Physics, and Dimensional Analysis is all that is required for reader to check the material presented for himself.) It is the purpose of this book to make these mechanisms understandable to the general reader. This book contains three sections. The main section, 'The Einstein Hoax', starts with a description of the early history of Special and General Relativity and proceeds to show that the earlier published Lorentz Transformation-Aether Theory is, except for philosophical interpretation, identical to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity and, in fact is a special case solution of that theory. As such, the Aether Theory must be a valid option if Special Relativity is to be considered valid. The Aether Theory, however, is easily understood in terms of 'common sense' while an examination of the conclusions of Special Relativity yield logical absurdities which no rational mind should be willing to accept. But, fair is fair, the proof of a theory or its interpretation is, and should be, in the experimental evidence. Fortunately, experiments in the field of Quantum Physics have demonstrated that photons emitted as pairs are coupled by their 'quantum numbers' (in this case their direction of polarization) and changing the plane of polarization of one of the photons changes the plane of polarization of the other. The interesting conclusion of these experiments is that the velocity of that coupling is at least four times the velocity of light and may even be infinite. A minor modification of the experimental setup would allow the effect to be used to determine the absolute velocity of the laboratory through space to an accuracy of better than 400 miles per second. Since the interpretation associated with Special Relativity cannot tolerate the idea of an absolute velocity, we must revert to the Lorentz Transformation-Aether Theory because Dr. Einstein's interpretation of Space-Time falls on its face. General Relativity is based upon the Principles of Relativity and of Equivalence, but a glance at its conclusions (the gravitational equivalents of the Lorentz Transformations for Velocity effects), shows that it erroneously yields results inconsistent with those principles. It yields a gravitational transformation for time which is not multiplicatively commutative (the property which allows Special Relativity to work) and yields a transformation for length of unity (the equivalent Lorentz Transformation for Length is the reciprocal of the Lorentz Transforma
Author: Walter Edwards Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 9781465358141 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 116
Book Description
The conventional interpretation of modern physics is difficult to comprehend because it is not consistent with our sense based paradigm for physical reality (i.e., common sense). For example, the conventional interpretation of special relativity assumes time travel to the past is possible, while it is obviously not possible according to our common sense paradigm. In Physical Reality and Common Sense, John Bell's preferred frame interpretation of special relativity and quantum mechanics, supported by the now known structure of the universe, is used to construct an entirely new description of physical reality that will change the very foundations of modern physics.
Author: Vivian Robinson Publisher: ISBN: 9780645412550 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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The Common Sense Universe tells the story of the universe, from its smallest sub atomic particles to its large scale structure. It uses only three space dimensions and time, known or demonstrated physical principles, along with known physical constants. It removes the mystique from topics like Einstein's relativity theories and quantum mechanics. It uses rational, common sense ideas, to describe the physics of how the universe works. That is followed by simplified maths that show the magnitude of the physical principle, while not losing scientific integrity. It shows how the structure of individual particles gives them mass, electric charge, magnetic moment, spin, de Broglie wavelength, spin, parity, duality and Einstein's special relativity corrections. It also shows the origins of the elementary particles. It gives the structure and properties of some of them, such as pions, muons and more. The common sense universe goes on to show how protons and neutrons form nuclei. It is a quark and gluon free zone that explain many current unknowns and gives a better match with observation than standard models. It shows how quantum properties like quantized orbits and tunneling have simple classical physics explanations.Having outlined the properties of all matter, it shows how nucleons change a property of free space gives rise to gravity. The one simple equation derives Newton's inverse square law as the first approximation, Einstein's field equations as a second approximation and the exact solution. It shows the "experts" did not understand Einstein's mathematics. His work predicts that gravity gets weaker than inverse square as mass increases. Weaker gravity cannot give rise to black holes. Einstein never believed in them. Gravity being weaker than inverse square was proven by the anomalous precession of Mercury's orbit. Gravity weaker than inverse square means an infinite steady state universe won't collapse. The Common Sense Universe shows how an infinite steady state universe gives a better match with observation than the Big Bang theory. It is supported by the necessary maths. Along the way it answers many unknowns about galaxies. Galaxy rotation is as expected.
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