Apeiron articles from October 1997

Apeiron archives from October 1997

Possible decrease of entropy due to internal interactions in isolated systems.
October 1, 1997... If interactions and fluctuations exist among various subsystems of an isolated system, the entropy may not be an additive quantity. The second law of thermodynamics is based on statistical independence, etc. When these prerequisites do not...

An unheralded giant of geology: Warren Carey. (The Ephemeris: focus and books).
October 1, 1997... Professor (Emeritus) S. Warren Carey, University of Tasmania, renowned geologist, author and unbending patriarch of the Earth Expansion Hypothesis, [1] has now written a third book, this one with the sweeping title "Earth, Universe, Cosmos."...

The incompatibility between special relativity and particle dynamics. (The Ephemeris: focus and books).
October 1, 1997... Special relativity is incompatible with the dynamics of a system of interacting particles. A more realistic modelling, of a physical system requires potential (or configurational) energy, structured particles, and strictly speaking, one...

Electron centenary. (@ Issue: correspondence, conference threads and debate).
October 1, 1997... George Thomson in an interesting account of the story of the electron assigns 1897 as its birth year, though the word "electron" as a unit of electric charge was first used by an Irish physicist Johnstone Stoney in 1891[1]. Will 1997 herald a...

The mathematics of relativity. (@ Issue: correspondence, conference threads and debate).(Brief Article)
October 1, 1997... Now that we possess a journal dedicated to the clarification of mathematical aspects of special relativity (SR), the Special Relativity Letter, a reply to the relevant debate in Apeiron would be wasting space urgently needed for other topics....

Refutation of a refutation of the Lorentz transformation. (@ Issue: correspondence, conference threads and debate).
October 1, 1997... Consider the Lorentz transformation in its familiar form in 2 + 1 dimensions, between the coordinates of an event in an inertial system to those in another such system, (1) x' = [gamma](x - vt), y' = y, t' = [gamma](t - vx/[c.sup.2]) ...

Clock rates in special relativity. (@ Issue: correspondence, conference threads and debate).(Brief Article)
October 1, 1997... Phipps (1997) asks why do clock rates (in the special theory of relativity, STR) lack group properties? One could reply with the question why should they? But velocities form a group in 1 + 1 dimensions as Einstein stated in 1905. An easy way...

Clock rates (2). (@ Issue: correspondence, conference threads and debate).
October 1, 1997... Thomas Phipps' (Apeiron, Apr.-July 1997) unusually naive question has a trivially simple answer: because clock rates to not depend on uniform transport velocity relative to inertial frames of reference! Phipps' scenario is that of Einstein...

Fairwell [Xu.sup.2]. (@ Issue: correspondence, conference threads and debate).
October 1, 1997... Shaozhi & Xiangqun (1997) produce three arguments to support their expression "Fairwell Relativity". I will explain here why their first argument is not entirely fair, and why their other two arguments are fallacious. In addition, they...

Untrained intuition and the special theory of relativity. (@ Issue: correspondence, conference threads and debate).(Brief Article)
October 1, 1997... Walton (1996) says "The assumption that v' = -v... is responsible for the paradox that, if we put ct' = ct(1 -v/c) and ct = ct'(1 + v/c); ct seems to have become contracted." Here v is the velocity of an inertial system relative to another...

Yet another obscure attack on special relativity. (@ Issue: correspondence, conference threads and debate).
October 1, 1997... Campbell (1996) considers a rod L (or segment) on a long straight line (O", O'), and two observers at O" and O' moving relative to the rod with equal velocities v in the direction from O" to O'. The observer at O' is ahead of the rod, and the...

No evidence for photon rest mass. (@ Issue: correspondence, conference threads and debate).(Brief Article)
October 1, 1997... Vigier (Apeiron 4, 71 (1997)) ignores the most important relevant facts and literature and makes a number of false assertions to try to claim that photons with a small rest mass might account for Miller's reported small positive...

[B.sup.(3)] field not proven. (@ Issue: correspondence, conference threads and debate).(Brief Article)
October 1, 1997... Evans (Apeiron 4, 48 (1997)) claims to have discovered "longitudinal solutions of Maxwell's equations" involving a "longitudinal magnetic flux density [B.sup.(3)]". But he fails to indicate the direction that defines his "longitudinal"....

[B.sup.(3)] in press. (@ Issue: correspondence, conference threads and debate).
October 1, 1997... I would like to record the fact that there have been twenty five formal comments and replies on the [B.sup.(3)] field, the subject of the Spring Special Issue of Apeiron. Comments have ranged from "very, very, very important" to "not to be...

Remarks on the transformations of space and time.
October 1, 1997... Space and time transformations from a "stationary" isotropic inertial system [S.sub.0] to any other inertial system S are shown to imply complete physical equivalence between the three possible pairs of assumptions chosen among the following:...

The twins, the mesons, and the paradox.
October 1, 1997... Einstein's special theory of relativity has left us with an enduring topic of concern in its prediction of time dilation. This prediction appears well validated in the apparently slow decay of rapidly moving unstable particles. But the...

The eight-fold way of the universe.
October 1, 1997... Philosophers have often sought the origin of Natural laws in a relationship between the microscopic world and the vast universe. Until recently, before large telescopes and technology were capable of deep-space investigation, there was no...

On the energy-inertial mass relation: II. Kinematic and geometrical aspects.
October 1, 1997... Kinematic and geometrical aspects of the connection between energy and inertial mass are considered. Transformations of coordinate and time are obtained in a two-dimensional flat space. For this case the Euclidean, pseudo-Euclidean and...