Einstein Special Relativity Chaos and a View Beyond
By Henry G. Follingstad
Could Einstein's Special Relativity Theory (ESR) be wrong? It is the contention of Prof. Emeritus of Mathematics Henry G. Follingstad that ESR is replete with serious and fatal errors and must be abandoned. In Part I of his work (Einstein Special Relativity Chaos:) Follingstad delivers a blow-by-blow analysis of all the stages of Einstein's argument proposed in his original 1905 article. Three major mathematical-physical flaws in Einstein's analysis result in forty-six consequent major errors which reduce ESR to a static absurdity. Acknowledging that sometimes mathematics can give correct answers even with an invalid mathematical-physical basis, Follingstad examines how three of the equation systems in ESR actually give correct experimental results and mistakenly gave rise to assumptions that ESR was correct in all other aspects as well. In Part II of his work (A View Beyond) Follingstad offers an exciting alternative to ESR chaos. He gathers and synthesizes further evidence of additional flaws in ESR from numerous scholarly, scientific articles in world-wide publishing sources, which often provide alternative solutions to replace ESR. Buy a copy of Follingstad's work and enjoy a well-reasoned challenge to a "sacred cow" of modern physics!
Abstract
The content of this book is divided into two main parts based on the two parts of its title: (Einstein Special Relativity Chaos) and (A View Beyond). The first part is the author's original and extensive critical analysis of every aspect of Einstein's famous article on Special Relativity (ESR). The author's own English translation is used to provide a complete analysis of Einstein's paper composed of an introduction and ten sections. He analyzes them critically in exact parallelism by his own introduction and ten chapters. The author includes all intermediate steps in a complete mathematical, physical, and logical analysis of all the words, symbols and equations of Einstein's original paper. The author also provides three useful appendices to aid full understanding of the paper by the modern scientific reader.
Major errors occur as a result of several major flaws discovered by the author: (1) Einstein's insufficient or erroneous assumptions about light velocity, simultaneity, etc.; (2) Einstein's hidden algebraic division by zero in some equation derivations; (3) Einstein's definition of a proportionality factor using two different values in the same transformation, forcing the velocity to be identically zero. These flaws (46 major errors) found by the author invalidate all equations of ESR and reduce them to a static absurdity.
Why then has ESR been accepted by so many early and modern scientists since 1905? It is well known that mathematics can sometimes give correct answers even with an invalid mathematical-physical basis. So a seemingly incredible but reasonable answer is that three of Einstein's equation systems in ESR actually gave correct experimental results: (1) The time dilation equation in Section 4; (2) The famous atomic energy equation: E = mc2 in Section 10; and (3) The variable mass equation for atomic particles in Section 10. These successful results from ESR apparently created an aura of acceptance for all equations of ESR, and so later experiments to verify the other equations in ESR, which could expose those errors, were either never performed, or else any negative results were ignored.
The second part of this book, (A View Beyond), is found in Appendix D which contains nine annotated bibliographies from the author's extensive reading research in numerous scientific articles and books, which cover the years from 1827 to 2005. They provide significant evidence, both theoretical and experimental, of flaws which challenge the validity of ESR and/or propose total alternatives to ESR. These bibliographies are extracted from the author's complete bibliography of 302 references which is provided at the conclusion of the nine bibliographies.
The bibliographic references clearly show that Einstein's time dilation equation can be generated without any time dilation, simply by deriving it in Newtonian terms. Also, his famous atomic energy equation, E = mc2, can be derived without assuming any mass variation. Finally, his atomic mass variation equation can also be derived and interpreted without any variation in mass. Thus these three equations are valid without ESR, and so their mathematical absurdity in ESR, as discovered and analyzed by the author, will not apply to them if and when ESR is simply abandoned.