Dear Jeff Baugher ,

You are getting wrong answer because you are assuming 2GM/c2r in equation (24) as much greater than 1. I have clarified in my last post that as shown in the paper 2GM/c2r is much less than 1. Then through binomial expansion of the first term we get on RHS,

(1-2GM/c2r)-1 - 1 = (1+2GM/c2r) - 1 = 2GM/c2r

Regards

G S Sandhu

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GS,

Sorry, forum was leaving out my other equation. I was getting [math]2e_{rr}\approx\frac{1}{1}-1=o[/math]. Even if you choose [math]2e_{rr}=\frac{1 \oplus 2GM/c^2r}{1-(2GM/c^2r)^2}-1 \approx 1\oplus 2GM/c^2r-1[/math]

how are you then justifying that this equation isn't still approximately 0 instead of GM/c^2r if 2GM/c2r

Dear Jeff Baugher,

As I have already explained a number of times, when 2GM/c2r is much less than 1, the expression

2err = (1-2GM/c2r)-1 - 1 = (1 2GM/c2r) - 1 = 2GM/c2r

and not zero for the simple reason that when the term 2GM/c2r is much less than 1, higher powers of (2GM/c2r) can be neglected but not the first power or the term 2GM/c2r itself. This term itself will be zero only if the mass M=0, in which case there is no gravitational field.

Jeff, I suggest for any further clarification of doubts on any of my papers referred in the subject essay, you may contact me by e-mail given in my essay. Let us use this forum for discussion of the contest essays only.

I am also deleting some of the earlier posts which were truncated due to technical problems with some of the mathematical symbols.

Regards

G S Sandhu

Dear Jeff Baugher,

As I have already explained a number of times, when 2GM/c2r is much less than 1, the expression

2err = (1-2GM/c2r)-1 - 1 = (1 2GM/c2r) - 1 = 2GM/c2r

and not zero for the simple reason that when the term 2GM/c2r is much less than 1, higher powers of (2GM/c2r) can be neglected but not the first power or the term 2GM/c2r itself. This term itself will be zero only if the mass M=0, in which case there is no gravitational field.

Jeff, I suggest for any further clarification of doubts on any of my papers referred in the subject essay, you may contact me by e-mail given in my essay. Let us use this forum for discussion of the contest essays only.

I am also deleting some of the earlier posts which were truncated due to technical problems with some of the mathematical symbols.

Regards

G S Sandhu

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I reread your essay.

It is interesting to consider what is the strength of the relativity compared with the Poincaré theory, or Umov theory (I don't know this interesting story): what is the characteristic that help the human revolution? I think that your reasoning is right: the strength of the revolution is in the world of ideas because we have not maps (mathematical description) of the physic frontier.

I think that the abstract mathematical construct like wave function (visible interference fringe) and four dimensional coordinate (perihelion precession of Mercury) have a direct observable measure but I think that your idea is more deep: I understand that now, in this age, we use a construct that must change in some thousand years (in an other mathematical frame), with a simpler description that is true like this (if it is so, that is interesting).

When you say that the laws of Nature exist independently from the coordinate system, then you say an interesting thing (that I don't notice in the first reading): the laws are true for each system, considering all the transformation, and apparent forces.

I have ever used a different synchronization, using the reflections time along AB, then I must to make some calculation to verify all (I understand that in [9] c+Uab is an approximation, because the velocity cannot be greater of c).

I voted your essay some day ago, like all the other, but I make a quickly read: each essay merit a reading for the innovative idea, but my vote are not ever generous.

Saluti

Domenico

Dear G S Sandhu

Ron Hatch holds views quite similar to yours on inertial reference frames, Galilean velocity addition and a compressible ether with stress and strain.

In his seventies now, Ron is a GPS consultant and is probably still part of the company he co-founded. He is an engineer with a string of accomplishments without an advanced degree.

Ron had a website with his papers, but took it down after Gravity Probe B did not confirm a result he had predicted. As I recall it had to do with gyroscope precession. My impression was that his prediction was made rashly. From what little I understand, the effect would only be of second-order and should be unobservable.

Ron is a proponent of an exponential metric which is the subject of my essay. By the way, I doubt if he believes a metric has any existence beyond mathematics any more than I do.

Hatch presumes from the beginning an exponential "scale factor" which functionally replaces the metric in simple situations like free fall. The purpose of my essay is to derive the exponential metric from Newtonian potential energy and special relativity. Special relativity and the corresponding part of what Hatch calls Modified Lorentian Ether Theory (MLET) give the same result for the relevant quantities.

Thank you very much for your comment on Ernst Fischer's essay. You exposed a problem with balancing the energy for Mach's principle. To me energy is of primary importance and I like to investigate possibilities - even if they might involve spooky action at a distance.

All the best

Colin

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    Dear Sandhu,

    Your work is interesting; mostly I agree with your critics. There are some points as well (on SR), on which I have some different view (particularly, I see M-r Minkowski more "guilty" than Einstein) Nevertheless, it seems just impossible to discuss it right here because the deal is about "so heavy" theme that requires pages and time.

    On W=mc^2. It is more important for me that Einstein have realized/interpreted right cognitive meaning of it (in mine opinion). Who have deduced it first - there are different views that I cannot exclude.

    Regards,

    George

    Dear Colin,

    Yes, I have glanced through a number of Ron Hatch's papers and agree that his views are quite similar to mine in many respects. However, he could not break off from the mesmerizing influence of Relativity and has been focusing on its modifications. I have particularly noted his remark, "While it is true that there is no measurement which can be used to distinguish the absolute ether frame from any other inertial frame,..". In this regard, I wonder if you could forward a copy of my contest essay, "Wrong Assumptions of Relativity Hindering Fundamental Research in Physical Space" to Ron Hatch to show that I have proposed not one but two simple doable tests for detection of absolute reference frame.

    All the best

    G S Sandhu

    Hello G.S.

    Very good essay. Thanks.

    The one thing I like of A.E. is his approach to see the truth of more than one observer. To me SR is about that.

    It is an observer dilemma and not a physical dilemma.

    A problem to me in GR is C. The idea of a vacuum is false. It is just an assumption. Also in outer space (seen from off earth) there is no real vacuum.

    Another problem with SR, but also in other theories, like the one you mentioned, is C2. The squaring is derived from the calculation but not taken into account as number. Even when C is constant and absolute the final conclusion should be: C2 = C, like 1^2 equals 1. Because this is left out, C2 should be seen like a nominator of dimension, by which C2 is a field instead of a direction (Line).

    Well, enough. I think in coming time a lot more physicists will break down the holy grail of A.E and his SR. Your thesis is a good start.

    Congratulations.

    with warm regards

    Jos Hoebe

    5 days later

    Gurcharn,

    You wrote: "Further, a rod of length L0 will be seen to be of different lengths L1, L2, etc. when viewed from different IRF moving parallel to the length at different velocities. Hence, we may conclude that the length contraction in SR is an apparent effect, induced by the assumed constancy of the speed of light 'c' in all IRF in relative motion. This implies a logical flaw in the second postulate of SR."

    Correct. But Einsteinians couldn't care less and develop the absurdity further. They teach that, since the rod is measured to be shorter, it can even be trapped inside a shorter container - e.g. an 80 m pole can be gloriously trapped inside a 40 m barn:

    http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/barn_pole.html

    "These are the props. You own a barn, 40m long, with automatic doors at either end, that can be opened and closed simultaneously by a switch. You also have a pole, 80m long, which of course won't fit in the barn. (...) If it does not explode under the strain and it is sufficiently elastic it will come to rest and start to spring back to its natural shape but since it is too big for the barn the other end is now going to crash into the back door and the rod will be trapped IN A COMPRESSED STATE inside the barn."

    http://www.parabola.unsw.edu.au/vol35_no1/vol35_no1_2.pdf

    "Suppose you want to fit a 20m pole into a 10m barn. (...) Hence in both frames of reference, the pole fits inside the barn (and will presumably shatter when the doors are closed)."

    Pentcho Valev pvalev@yahoo.com

      Dear Pentcho Valev,

      I agree with you that there are many absurdities in the formulation as well as in the interpretation of SR. You say, "But Einsteinians couldn't care less and develop the absurdity further. They teach that, since the rod is measured to be shorter, it can even be trapped inside a shorter container - e.g. an 80 m pole can be gloriously trapped inside a 40 m barn"

      All such paradoxes of SR in fact represent the internal contradictions and inconsistencies of SR. In case of so called 'length contraction', the inconsistency is in the prescribed 'hypothetical' measurement procedure. As I have written in the essay, "We say 'hypothetically measured' because as per the prescribed method of measurement, the measuring rods are supposed to be carried in the moving IRF (K') while the rod to be measured is located in the BCRF, and the measurements are to be carried out through exchange of light signals. Practically it is impossible to carry out such measurements." And such a measurement of length contraction has in fact NEVER been carried out throughout the long history of SR.

      Best Wishes

      G S Sandhu

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      Dear Mr. Gurcharn,

      Thank you so much for taking the time and the trouble to read my essay and for posting a comment about it.

      As you kindly requested of me, I have now attempted to read your essay, however, due to the dismal fact that I am not particularly well educated, I am afraid I did not understand a good deal of it. It did seem to be exceptionally well written and its presentation was clear and succinct. The section on "dimension analysis" did intrigue me, especially your assertion that numbers are dimensionless.

      As best as I can tell, one real appearing Universe can be perpetually occurring in one real here for one real now while performing in one real dimension once. All real stuff has always to remain in one real dimension, although that one real dimension can have three abstract aspects. There is only one real 1 of anything once. There is only one real 1 of everything once.

      Mathematicians constantly reuse the symbolic number 1 without ever paying any mind to the abstract absolute logical imperative of a defined once. If a real Universe can only use one real one of anything once, Mathematics has to have an inbuilt flaw because the only symbolic 1 that would have had any plausibility would have been the very first 1 that was ever constructed once.

      I do wish you well in the contest.

      Dear Sandhu,

      Congratulations. You wrote a very good essay with a criticism of Relativity. The content of your essay is important for our time. SR and GR should stay in the past as a false theory cause they contain wrong notions about space and essence of time.

      Best regards,

      M.A. Gaisin

      Hello Gurcharn Singh Sandhu

      This is actually a response to your post to Geoffrey Haselhurst. I hope this is an appropriate way to send it.

      You write to Hazelhurst:

      You say, "what we call empty space is in fact full of waves". In your opinion, what are the physical properties of this empty space that facilitate the creation or propagation of waves in it? Which parameter is supposed to oscillate in these waves?

      My essay, The Place of Geometry in Physics, is about a possible answer. That is its main topic. I hope you find it satisfactory.

      Best wishes

      Alan Hutchinson.

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      Dear Gurbachan,

      I have read your excellent paper and I am in general agreement with your views. There are some areas that I see differently. The point that is most important in your argument, as I see it is your disagreement with the first postulate - 'Special' Principle of Relativity'. In addition to the relevant dynamical point you raise about the angular momentum and kinetic energy with respect to the barycentric frame, there is also another point that I would like to make because this is the key to the dynamic explanation of the so-called Lorentz transformation. (This you will understand from the last section of my paper).

      http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/1549

      While your arguments about angular momentum and kinetic energy are valid, they trivialize this argument by insisting that a) energy is relative and b) laws of physics (meaning Newton's second law holds) in all inertial frames. Their argument is based on the position that the differential coefficient of the velocity of a particle will remain invariant, with respect to any IFR.

      Einstein has taken the dynamic content out of Galileo's principle of relativity and made a fake imitation of it. And this is why a dynamic explanation for the Lorentz transformation can not be offered by SRT.

      I would like you to consider the following.

      In his book "Dialogue Between The Two Chief World Systems" in the chapter on Second Day (157 pages in all) he takes example after example and showed that the reason why the effects of motion of a place (i.e. observer's location) in uniform motion cannot seen by the observer is because the observer and the observed objects (in motion relative to the observer) shared a COMMON MOTION with that place.

      Galileo started off his discussion on the principle of relativity in the following way: "Then let the beginning of our reflections be the consideration that whatever motions comes to be attributed to the earth must necessarily remain IMPERCEPTIBLE to us and as if non-existent, so long as we look only at terrestrial objects; for as inhabitants of the earth, WE CONSEQUENTLY PARTICIPATE IN THE SAME MOTION" (p. 114).

      "The cause of all these correspondences of effects is the fact that the ship's motion is common to all the things contained in it" (p. 187).

      In Galileo's relativity, (as opposed Poincare's version), it is the relative motion between the objects, that remain unaffected by motion of the place (Local reference frame), and not the discrete motion per se of a given object.

      Newton brings this out clearly in his statement of the principle of relativity: Newton wrote the principle of relativity (in Principia, Corollary V) as follows: "The motions of bodies included in a GIVEN SPACE are the same AMONG THEMSELVES, whether that space is at rest or moves uniformly forwards in a right line without any circular motion" (p. 20).

      "Motion of bodies ....among themselves" means motions RELATIVE to one another, and not the motion of each body relative to the given space. (According the Galileo's principle Relative motions between bodies remain invariant, but not discrete motions of individual bodies).

      Poincare started to twist Galileo's tail from 1900 to insist that a) there is no common motion with the local frame b) Motion of each body remained unaffected by the motion of the local frame. (This is the basis of equivalence of all reference frames). In 1904 St. Louis Speech he announced his Principle of Relativity. (According to Poincare's principle, discrete motion of each body remains invariant. "Motion of A BODY is independent of the motion of the system")

      Einstein dropped Galileo-Newton principle of relativity and grabbed hold of Poincare's principle. The rest is history of confusion for 100 years.

      I think the dynamic explanation of LT by the restoration of Galileo's principle will be important to prove the fallacy of the notion of equivalence of all IFR.

      I would like to hear your comments.

      Best regards,

      Viraj

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        Dear Gurcham Singh Sandhu,

        You provided almost no references to those many who also dealt with the topic you are focusing on. Hopefully you will appreciate the references 5, 6, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, and 31 in my essay.

        My Fig. 5 refers to 28. I consider it the first obviously plausible and quantitatively confirmed explanation for the unexpected null-result of the experiment by Michelson and Morley. The implications should be known.

        Any objections?

        Best,

        Eckard

          Gurcharn

          I liked your nicely written critique of relativity, agreeing with most but with one big caveat; In logic, nothing can be proved illogical if just one case exists in which it may be logical Astonishingly I've found such a case for the SR postulates. I hope you may study it in my essay and comment.

          It actually proves most of you other points correct, but the assumption that rigid objects even 'appear to contract' (never evidenced) incorrect. Contraction and dilation would apply to time signals, waves, strings of photons and compressible bodies on acceleration, (between inertial states) and = Doppler shift.

          Interestingly it shows that an absolute ultimate frame is logically possible AS WELL as local ones. The hierachical compound structure of logic is applied directly to real inertial 'frames' as real spaces with real spatial limits. It does take some concentration to assimilate! I hope you can do so and give me your views.

          Well done, and best of luck.

          Peter

            Dear Viraj,

            You say, "I think the dynamic explanation of LT by the restoration of Galileo s principle will be important to prove the fallacy of the notion of equivalence of all IFR."

            After discussing various fallacies, paradoxes and inconsistencies of Relativity with expert relativists for a number of years, I have come to believe that no amount of logical arguments can ever convince them about the invalidity of Relativity. The only way forward is to practically demonstrate the invalidity of Relativity through a repeatable unambiguous experiment. For that I have proposed not one but two simple doable experiments for detection of absolute motion that can clinch the issue once and for all. In fact the second experiment is so simple that any pair of timing Labs can conduct it within a week without asking for any additional resources. A detailed paper about this proposed experiment has been just accepted for publication in Applied Physics Research Journal for publication in their November issue. Links to these papers have been given in my essay.

            Best Regards

            G S Sandhu

            Dear Eckard,

            I have just read your excellent essay and fully agree with your point of view. I am also impressed with the long list of references given in your essay. However, I refrained from quoting many references because of the FQXi guidelines mentioning, "While the essay may or may not constitute original research, if the core ideas are largely contained in published works, those works should be the author's."

            Further I am convinced that no amount of logical arguments can ever convince the Relativists about the invalidity of Relativity. The only way forward is to practically demonstrate the invalidity of Relativity through a repeatable unambiguous experiment. For that I have proposed not one but two simple doable experiments for detection of absolute motion that can clinch the issue once and for all. In fact the second experiment is so simple that any pair of timing Labs can conduct it within a week without asking for any additional resources. A detailed paper about this proposed experiment has been just accepted for publication in Applied Physics Research Journal for publication in their November issue. Links to these papers have been given in my essay.

            Best Regards

            G S Sandhu

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            Hi Gurcharn,

            My project does not entail exposing of fallacies of SRT per se as you seem to think. I made the above statement to you (and quoted back by you) because your paper is seemingly dedicated to expose fallacies of SRT, and I pointed out that your position can be made stronger by the derivation of LT by a dynamic interpretation of Galileo's principle of relativity (as opposed to Einstein's kinematic principle).

            Why people hang on the SRT despite all the contradictions is because there in no other viable alternative theory, that explains relativistic phenomena in a consistent manner. You must understand that even Lorentz finally gave up his position

            If you read my paper carefully, you will find that it is giving an alternative to SRT, based on first principles. It shows that the reason why SRT arose in the first place is because of the Problematic concepts in the Newtonian foundation. http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/1549

            "We may note that among the problematic foundational concepts created by Newton that have congenitally infected RT and QM are a) the primacy of the concepts of space and time, b) representation of bodies as mass-points without internal structure, c) consideration of centrifugal force as a pseudo-force, d) the closed system with the consequent inability to account for inflow and outflow of energy between the system and the field etc. e) Not recognizing that it is by the two quantities of energy (Mc2 and pc) fusing together to form a system that motion occurs. f) the omission of the fact that a fraction of the applied energy of motion pc gets usurped for the co-movement with the location. g) Not developing the theory with state changes of energy as the basis of its physical geometry. With these congenital foundational problems being inherent in these two progeny theories as well, it should be obvious that revamping of physics must begin from where the problems originated".

            By rectifying all the above problems, I have forged a theory that covers the physics of motions of bodies for all velocities - 0