Relativity And Common Sense

Author : Hermann Bondi
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486240215
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Relativity and Common Sense written by Hermann Bondi and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1964-01-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This radically reoriented and popular presentation of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity derives its concepts from Newtonian ideas rather than by opposing them. It demonstrates that time is relative rather than absolute, that high speeds affect the nature of time, and that acceleration affects speed, time, and mass. Very little mathematics is required, and 60 illustrations augment the text.

Author : Hermann Bondi
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book relativity and common sense written by Hermann Bondi and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1964 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Francis Medforth Denton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Relativity and Common Sense written by Francis Medforth Denton and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert L. Henderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Return of Common Sense written by Robert L. Henderson and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hermann Bondi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Relativity and common sense written by Hermann Bondi and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul R. Heyl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Common Sense of the Theory of Relativity written by Paul R. Heyl and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Walter Edwards
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781465358134
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Physical Reality and Common Sense written by Walter Edwards and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conventional interpretation of modern physics is difficult to comprehend because it is not consistent with our sense based paradigm for physical reality (i.e., common sense). For example, the conventional interpretation of special relativity assumes time travel to the past is possible, while it is obviously not possible according to our common sense paradigm. In Physical Reality and Common Sense, John Bell's preferred frame interpretation of special relativity and quantum mechanics, supported by the now known structure of the universe, is used to construct an entirely new description of physical reality that will change the very foundations of modern physics.

Author : H. E. Retic
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781588202352
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Einstein Hoax written by H. E. Retic and published by . This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of this book was written a long time ago when the author first became aware of the concepts of Special and General Relativity. At the time he assumed that the subject was well thought out and understood by people more knowledgeable and probably more intelligent than himself. His goal was to learn from them and to understand the phenomena that was being described. He could not, however, accept the prevalent idea that the workings of Nature were beyond the ability of mere mortals to understand at the 'common sense' level. As he studied the subject, he learned that this dictum was an intellectual 'con game' by men who were acting in the manner of a priesthood defending the 'true faith' rather than scientists and who, when challenged on points which a bright physics or engineering student would easily understand, showed a rather limited ability to reason and covered their limitations by asserting that it was the challenger's limitations which prevented understanding. The dictum is not true, the mechanisms by which Nature operates are, for the most part, easily understood by reasonably bright (and interested) high school students, and the necessary mathematics and arguments to evaluate their validity of the are within knowledge of sophomore students of engineering and/or physics.(A knowledge of Integral Calculus, Elementary Physics, and Dimensional Analysis is all that is required for reader to check the material presented for himself.) It is the purpose of this book to make these mechanisms understandable to the general reader. This book contains three sections. The main section, 'The Einstein Hoax', starts with a description of the early history of Special and General Relativity and proceeds to show that the earlier published Lorentz Transformation-Aether Theory is, except for philosophical interpretation, identical to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity and, in fact is a special case solution of that theory. As such, the Aether Theory must be a valid option if Special Relativity is to be considered valid. The Aether Theory, however, is easily understood in terms of 'common sense' while an examination of the conclusions of Special Relativity yield logical absurdities which no rational mind should be willing to accept. But, fair is fair, the proof of a theory or its interpretation is, and should be, in the experimental evidence. Fortunately, experiments in the field of Quantum Physics have demonstrated that photons emitted as pairs are coupled by their 'quantum numbers' (in this case their direction of polarization) and changing the plane of polarization of one of the photons changes the plane of polarization of the other. The interesting conclusion of these experiments is that the velocity of that coupling is at least four times the velocity of light and may even be infinite. A minor modification of the experimental setup would allow the effect to be used to determine the absolute velocity of the laboratory through space to an accuracy of better than 400 miles per second. Since the interpretation associated with Special Relativity cannot tolerate the idea of an absolute velocity, we must revert to the Lorentz Transformation-Aether Theory because Dr. Einstein's interpretation of Space-Time falls on its face. General Relativity is based upon the Principles of Relativity and of Equivalence, but a glance at its conclusions (the gravitational equivalents of the Lorentz Transformations for Velocity effects), shows that it erroneously yields results inconsistent with those principles. It yields a gravitational transformation for time which is not multiplicatively commutative (the property which allows Special Relativity to work) and yields a transformation for length of unity (the equivalent Lorentz Transformation for Length is the reciprocal of the Lorentz Transforma

Author : Nataša Rakić
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789074795661
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Common Sense Time and Special Relativity written by Nataša Rakić and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sander Bais
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674026117
Total Pages : 128 pages
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Download or read book Very Special Relativity written by Sander Bais and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, first published in 1905, radically changed our understanding of the world. Familiar notions of space and time and energy were turned on their head, and our struggle with Einstein's counterintuitive explanation of these concepts was under way. The task is no easier today than it was a hundred years ago, but in this book Sander Bais has found an original and uniquely effective way to convey the fundamental ideas of Einstein's Special Theory. Bais's previous book, The Equations, was widely read and roundly praised for its clear and commonsense explanation of the math in physics. Very Special Relativity brings the same accessible approach to Einstein's theory. Using a series of easy-to-follow diagrams and employing only elementary high school geometry, Bais conducts readers through the quirks and quandaries of such fundamental concepts as simultaneity, causality, and time dilation. The diagrams also illustrate the difference between the Newtonian view, in which time was universal, and the Einsteinian, in which the speed of light is universal. Following Bais's straightforward sequence of simple, commonsense arguments, readers can tinker with the theory and its great paradoxes and, finally, arrive at a truly deep understanding of Einstein's interpretation of space and time. An intellectual journey into the heart of the Special Theory, the book offers an intimate look at the terms and ideas that define our reality.