Theory of Relativity, Elements and Criticism
Author: José Tiberius
Publisher: Molwick
Published: 2017-11-01
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 8415328818
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Theory of Relativity is one of the most complex in the history of science. Together with Darwin’s theory, it is also one of the most controversial, despite the number of experiments that have supposedly confirmed it. Some aspects are conventionally consistent; for example, as it is currently defined, time is relative. However, it does not make much sense the official definition of the unit of time is sensitive to the gravitational field or speed; since it would have been logical to establish it, including these two specific conditions, as it does with temperature and others. This book analyzes the basic concepts: • Maxwell's equations and the Lorentz transformations –3D Pitagoras theorem, the principles of Poincaré, and interpretations of the Michelson-Morley experiment as immediate antecedents of relativistic physics. • Ad hoc postulates of Einstein's relativity, or better said axioms! • The unusual terminology of the theory: thought experiments, observer as a reference frame, inertial and non-inertial frames, and many more. • The Euclidean space and the types in Einstein’s theory as the geometry of Minkowsky and Riemann. • Concept of inertial, gravitational, and relativistic mass. • The weakness of the twin paradox in Special Relativity. • Principle of equivalence incorporating gravity with General Relativity. Since it only explains 5% of the energy-mass of the observable universe and its peculiar characteristics, it belongs to the books of Global Metaphysics.
