Revision of Relativity Theory

Abstract

Relativity theory as Einstein devised it is easily shown to be fundamentally flawed. Examples are represented to prove this beyond a shadow of doubt. The revised version of relativity removes all these problems by introducing the Uniform Scaling Principle and the Newton-Voigt space-time Transformation (NVT). The latter is consistent with the Law of Causality. It introduces a Clock-rate Corollary to Newton’s First Law of Kinetics (Law of Inertia), whereby it is evident that events which occur at one location will occur at the same time in any other (Absolute Simultaneity as opposed to Einstein’s Remote NonSimultaneity RNS claim based on the Lorentz Transformation). The NVT requires the use of a single parameter (Q) which is determined by experiment. It is also essential for application of the Uniform Scaling Principle (USP). Experiments with circumnavigating airplanes led to the Universal Time-dilation Law (UTDL). It states that the elapsed time read on one clock is inversely proportional to γ (v), whereby v is its speed v relative to an Objective Rest System (ORS); the latter is the earth’s center of mass (ECM) in this example and Q = γ (v’)/γ(v) in general. As such, this proves that measurement is objective, i.e. is not subject to the position of the observer.

T here is a second fundamental parameter S which gives the ratio of elapsed times measured by two observers in different gravitational potentials. The ratios of other physical properties are always products of integral values of Q and S. They are deduced on the basis of experimental results for each property. T he scaling procedure for velocities introduced by Schiff in 1960 is compatible with the USP. It allows for a straightforward prediction of the displacement angle for star images observed during solar eclipses which was first computed by Einstein in 1916 using his General Relativity (GR) Theory. Scaling of the Newtonian equation for the acceleration due to gravity allows one to extend Schiff’s theory to the accurate prediction of the advancement angle of the perihelion of planets which was first computed using Einstein’s GR. The extended method is much less complicated than GR.