tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5384583593570605585.post7656615722294444827..comments2022-12-02T17:47:09.350-08:00Comments on Let's Talk Physics: New Edition of Relativity Made RealWill Nelsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00289187877856552901noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5384583593570605585.post-33264116202843567522015-07-30T03:19:34.442-07:002015-07-30T03:19:34.442-07:00I bought your book and I am pleased to be able to ...I bought your book and I am pleased to be able to read it soon. I am sure, that your wavecentric approach to special relativity is highly important. It presents Einstein's theory from a new and fresh perspective. <br /><br />The reason why I bought your book was your paper "A Wave-centric View of Special Relativity". I did not understand everything, but what I could understand, was enlightening. <br /><br />To give an example: In this paper you criticized that special relativity is usually taught in the context of particle kinematics by which many relativistic phenomena are looking strange and even opaque, whereas these phenomena considered in the wave-context are looking quite natural.<br /><br />By pointing our attention to this aspect of special relativity, you are unconsciously touching a weakness of Einstein's theory, that is still unseen.<br /><br />If the source-independence of the speed of light is considered in the context of (relativistic) particle kinematics it allows to solve just that contradiction, which should lead to special relativity: the contradiction between Galilean velocity composition law and the constancy of the velocity of light.<br /><br /><br />It is precisely this possibility that underlines the "unreal" meaning of the second postulate of special relativity because we can no longer decide whether the speed of light is independent or dependent of the speed of source. <br /><br />I've written a small paper which highlights this conclusion. This paper "Is Special Relativity a Decidable Theory?" can be downloaded from following link:<br /><br />http://www.worldsci.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_6935.pdfHelmut Hansenhttp://helmuthansen.denoreply@blogger.com