Questioning Einstein: Is Relativity Necessary?

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Questioning Einstein: Is Relativity Necessary?

Questioning Einstein: Is Relativity Necessary? by Tom Bethell is a serious scholarly work that is very well written, absorbing the reader in a tale of long-neglected experimental results that plays out to a deep satisfaction in finally answering the question, "Why can't I understand relativity?" This is a fresh, unique review of both special and general relativity. It takes for granted that Einsteinâ€™s mathematics is properly done. It does not quarrel with the numerous experimental results that support Einsteinâ€™s general relativity theory. Then what is the quarrel with Einstein? Bethell argues that special relativity theory is wrong and general relativity theory is not necessary. For example, Einstein himself derived E= mc2 without relativity theory, and he also argued in a lecture in 1920 at Leiden that â€œspace without ether is unthinkable,â€ only 15 years after having said that the ether was superfluous. Bethellâ€™s book is not mathematical; after all, he does not quarrel with Einsteinâ€™s mathematics. Importantly, it is strongly based on experimental foundations. Time dilation, for example, is supported byâ€”but not proved byâ€”moving muons and clocks carried around the globe. In particular, Bethell promotes Petr Beckmannâ€™s case that the medium of propagation of light is the dominant gravitational field. That idea is actually part and parcel of Einsteinâ€™s general theory of relativity, save that the latter hides the simplicity behind tensors in curved space-time.

Country	USA
Author	Tom Bethell
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9780971484597
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	Vales Lake Publishing, LLC
Manufacturer	Vales Lake Publishing, LLC
NumberOfPages	205
PublicationDate	2015-06-25
Publisher	Vales Lake Publishing, LLC
ReleaseDate	2015-06-25
Studio	Vales Lake Publishing, LLC

Questioning Einstein: Is Relativity Necessary?

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