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This book is a description of the author’s studies and publications concerning Einstein’s special relativity theory over a forty-year period starting in 1971. In the early part of that period he collaborated with Professor Herbert Dingle in the latter’s campaign against the special theory, and after Dingle’s death in 1978 he continued to advance this program and to draw attention to the unsatisfactory situation whereby many arguments in favour of relativity are accepted without question by almost all scientists in spite of numerous contradictions. One of Dingle’s criticisms of the special theory is presented in an appendix, with a commentary.
- Sales Rank: #2333547 in Books
- Published on: 2011-12-25
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .59" w x 6.00" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 260 pages
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Potential Readers
By B. Boomer
This book is very readable. I'll comment on three potential audiences, namely, the young (college student or even smart high school student), the layman looking to understand science and the physics professor. Comments for all three may be helpful to all. First, the book is not a primer on special relativity. Rather it discusses a great debate about the Twin Paradox and about the validity of special relativity itself. All readers should have a basic, conceptual understanding of special relativity before reading the book. The book, as I recall, contains no equations - not because they've been removed for readability, but rather because the physics issues are ones of concepts, logic and common sense.
The student reader will learn that what's taught in college/textbooks is not necessarily the one and only immutable truth. Furthermore, as opposed to a textbook that imparts knowledge, the book will teach one how to think for oneself as one follows the interplay of conflicting ideas. One may even become better prepared mentally for paradigm shifts to come. Also, while one's peers see what's written on the blackboard in relativity class and possibly other classes, one will see the subtext as well.
Similarly, the layman looking to understand science will get not only a good science detective story, but a demonstration that physics, like all human endeavors, involves politics, psychology, ideology, egos, flaws, deceit, etc.
The physics professor could well be the reader who would benefit the most from reading the book, not because it requires that depth of knowledge, but because it will give fresh insights.
The book gives a lot of detailed history and analysis of Dingle and McCausland, both very well respected professors, evolving into critics first of the "resolutions" of the Twin Paradox and then critics of special relativity itself and the opposition they encountered. Some of the middle chapters are models for developing effective logic arguments. At the end, McCausland covers and documents "Science and Criticism" and "Censorship in Science". The physics, logic and the latter Criticism/Censorship topics are documented in depth primarily, but by no means exclusively, drawing on Dingle's and McCausland's experiences.
McCausland has packed most chapters with great quotes - I find myself continually "borrowing' those quotes in my writings.
Some reading tips: A few chapters have many sentences with short citations in parenthetical clauses because the back and forth exchanges are meticulously documented. At first, this slowed me down, but then my eyes just jumped over the parenthetical clauses noting that all was well documented. Part of chapter 3 discussed the effects of acceleration in the Twin Paradox with valid points, but it was a tangent that was peripheral to the main thread and can be skimmed. Similarly, a discussion of Ritz at the end of chapter 5 is also tangential and can be skimmed. Other than those two items, the thesis was a coherent whole even though multi-faceted.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
An adventure in unorthodox physics
By THOMAS E. PHIPPS
Early in the education of physicists they learn to see special relativity theory as the holy of holies. They are told, on the basis of the "relativity principle," that (symmetrical) relative motion is all that counts. Indeed, a single parameter, the relative velocity v of two inertial systems, suffices to define a complete kinematics. Yet the same theory teaches, in the case of the famous relatively-traveling twins, that their aging is asymmetrical. Whence comes this asymmetry? Certainly not from the parameter v. Acceleration, to be sure, is asymmetrical, but that does not disturb the kinematic symmetry of the purely relative motion. Thus arises an enduring puzzle that has perturbed relativity critics over the years. One such was Herbert Dingle, who notably held out against the physics profession. Early in his career he wrote on relativity and was deemed an Authority. But later, when he became an Apostate, he was widely accused of "not understanding" relativity. The fascinating tale of science run amok that centers on the Dingle controversy is the main subject of Ian McCausland's important little book. It is to be recommended to anyone interested in physics whose thinking is not controlled by Authority and whose mind is open on the subject of ultimate truth in science.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Thank God for Herbert Dingle!
By Oracle
It is amazing that this discussion has now gone on for more than 100 years while any schoolchild who knows the Theorem of Pythagoras should know that Einstein's interpretation of time is not just wrong but absurdly impossible. The quadratic length r^2 of a position vector in 2D space is given in terms of Cartesian coordinates x and y, as r^2=x^2+y^2; WHERE r IS THE HYPOTENUSE OF A RIGHT TRIANGLE. According to Einstein and Minkowski one can also have a hypotenuse that is valid as the magnitude of a position-vector when setting y^2=-(ct)^2 so that r^2=x^2-(ct)^2. This is obviously impossible since the latter equation can ONLY satisfy the Theorem of Pythagoras when x is the hypotenuse; since only then one has that x^2=r^2+(ct)^2: IT MUST BE PLUS!!!!! This means that x must now be the hypotenuse NOT r anymore.
The simple incontrovertible fact is that in Special Relativity the disance ct is ALWAYS a hypotenuse in real space. It has NOTHING to do with an imaginary component. The Lorentz equations result from the fact the ct is ALWAYS a hypotenuse and these equations can therefore be derived without invoking the imaginary number i=SQRT(-1). This is done in the following books by Jonah F Inkosana (a) Why Galileo Trumps Einstein (b) Why does E=mc*2: It is Forshaw not a CockxUP. It is found that when a moving a source at position x' from O (relative to which it is moving) emits a wavefront at the instant in time t', this SAME wavefront only appears relative to O at a LATER TIME t and at a FURTHER DISTANCE x from O. This is demanded since the wavefront is not emitted in aether. Thus t' and t are two different times as they actually MUST be since the SAME instant in time CANNOT be two different times EVER! Time passes at the SAME rate within ALL inertial reference frames. If this were not so Galileo's principle of relativity would be WRONG and thus also SR which is based on this principle! The twins will be the same age!
What has been done by the mainstream theoretical physicists to Prof Herbert Dingle is a scandal that is only rivalled by what Galileo had to endure. The fact that these mainstream theoretical physicists could for 100 years not even grasp the Theorem of Pythagoras, means that 20th century theoretical physics, from Einstein's General Theory of Relativity to the Standard Model of Particle Physics must be seriously flawed. But are the mainstream theoretical physicists in charge of physics ever going to admit it, or even admit that it is possible; as one expects from honoutrable physicists with INTEGRITY? From my personal experience I do not think so. They have too much to loose. Therefore "peer review" has become censorship which would have done the inquisition proud. Carver Mead is right: Physics is truly within the Dark Ages.
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