Relativity without Einstein?

True! - The concept of a 4-dimensional space-time is no longer necessary to
explain relativistic effects!

Special Relativity comprises three phenomena occurring at fast motion:

  1. Physical objects contract
  2. Clocks change their speed (and so their time indications)
  3. Masses increase

And: Every measurement of the speed of light ‘c’ has the same result. This can be taken as the origin of the above phenomena (Einstein). Or, the other way around: The measured constancy of the speed of light is the consequence of the three phenomena above (Lorentz).

In the world of Einstein the relativistic phenomena are the consequence of the intrinsic properties of space and time. - There is, however, a much simpler explanation available in the view of other physical facts.

  1. The contraction is the simple consequence of the fact that the fields, which bind the constituents of the physical objects, contract. The reason for this is the limited speed of light by which the binding fields propagate at motion.
    This consequence was seen very early after the Michelson-Morley experiment by several physicists who referred to the recently developed theory of Maxwell about electromagnetism.
     

  2. The dilation of every periodic process (like a clock function) at motion is an immediate consequence of the internal oscillations of elementary particles. The constituents of elementary particles are mass-less and orbit each other at the speed of light.
    This behaviour of elementary particles was basically found by Louis de Broglie in 1923 when he detected the wave properties of elementary particles. A quantitative description was given by Paul Dirac in 1928 when he developed the famous ‘Dirac function’ of the electron. Erwin Schrödinger called this motion "Zitterbewegung".
     

  3. The mass of elementary particles itself is also a consequence of the limited speed of light, by which the binding fields between the constituents of the elementary particles propagate.
    This mechanism causes also the increase mass at motion which is an immediate consequence of the contraction. And this leads directly to the famous mass-energy-equivalence equation of     Einstein.


The following figure shows the general set up of an elementary particle.
 

 

  

 

mass  m = 0

circulation = de Broglie frequency

 
 

The explanation of the contraction of matter and the dilation of time which is mentioned above conforms to the so called "Lorentzian Interpretation of Relativity" named after the famous Dutch physicist Hendrik Antoon Lorentz. Lorentz developed the well known "Lorentz Transformation" which is the basis of special relativity. Lorentz received the Nobel Price in 1902 in appreciation of his work on this topic. You will find a physical deduction of the Lorentzian Interpretation of special relativity as a consequence of the structure of matter here.

General Relativity without Einstein is discussed in the context of gravity.

The origin of mass as well the deduction of its increase at motion is found here.

 

  

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