Apeiron articles from January 2012

Apeiron archives from January 2012

Decisive test for the Ritz hypothesis.(Report)
January 1, 2012... 1. Introduction It is over one hundred years since Albert Einstein [1] proposed his Special Theory of Relativity to explain the null result of the Michelson-Morley experiment [2]. In that time his theory has become widely adopted as...

The clock riddle: the failure of Einstein's Lorentz transformation.(Report)
January 1, 2012... I. Introduction The central result of Einstein's special theory of relativity (SR) is the Lorentz transformation (LT) [1]. Two of its most famous predictions are Fitzgerald-Lorentz length contraction (FLC) and time dilation. There have been...

Gravito-electromagnetism--another step towards a unified theory of the origin of mass.(Report)
January 1, 2012... 1. Introduction This paper shows how the field equations of gravito-electromagnetism (GEM) can be derived from mass-energy conservation and how the resulting formalism provides a bridge between two very different theoretical approaches to the...

Bringing simultaneity back to life.(Report)
January 1, 2012... 1. Introduction The physical invalidity of distant simultaneity, known as "the relativity of simultaneity," was established in the public mind most dramatically by means of Einstein's Gedanken experiments, notably the famous one involving two...

An attempt to explain dark energy in terms of statistical anisotropy.(Report)
January 1, 2012... Introduction An attempt to explain dark energy is made in terms of a modelling error introduced by the simplifications used to derive the Friedman equations of cosmology. A demonstration is given that small, statistically-fluctuating...