Special relativity: Its inconsistency with the standard wave equation
Stephen J. Crothers
Abstract
Stephen J. Crothers
Abstract
By means of the Lorentz Transformation, Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity purports invariance of the standard wave equation. Counter-examples, satisfying the Lorentz Transformation, and hence Lorentz Invariance, prove that the Lorentz Transformation does not in fact produce invariance of the standard wave equation. Systems of clock-synchronised stationary observers are Galilean and necessarily transform by the Galilean Transformation. Einstein’s insistence that inertial (i.e. Galilean) systems of clock-synchronised stationary observers transform, not by the Galilean Transformation, but by the non-Galilean Lorentz Transformation, is logically inconsistent. The Special Theory of Relativity is therefore logically inconsistent. Therefore, it is false. The Lorentz Transformation is meaningless.
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By means of the Lorentz Transformation, Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity purports invariance of the standard wave equation. Counter-examples, satisfying the Lorentz Transformation, and hence Lorentz Invariance, prove that the Lorentz Transformation does not in fact produce invariance of the standard wave equation. Systems of clock-synchronised stationary observers are Galilean and necessarily transform by the Galilean Transformation. Einstein’s insistence that inertial (i.e. Galilean) systems of clock-synchronised stationary observers transform, not by the Galilean Transformation, but by the non-Galilean Lorentz Transformation, is logically inconsistent. The Special Theory of Relativity is therefore logically inconsistent. Therefore, it is false. The Lorentz Transformation is meaningless.
Key concepts: Physics, Theory of relativity, Special relativity, Theoretical physics, Classical mechanics, Mathematical physics