A Criticism Of Einstein And His Problem - Softcover

William Henry Vincent Reade

 
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A Criticism Of Einstein And His Problem by William Henry Vincent Reade. This polemical work challenges Einstein's theory of relativity, arguing that many of its counterintuitive results arise from misapplied measurements of time, distance, and velocity. Reade develops the swimmer-in-a-stream analogy to show that a constant-velocity subject cannot be described by a simple subtraction of current effects, and that 'retardation' is not a real force. He then applies this reasoning to the case of a passenger in a moving train, the addition of velocities, and the behavior of light in Fizeau's experiment, insisting that velocities are best understood relative to fixed references and that Euclidean distance concepts fail in motion geometry. The later chapters, including discussions of light's unique status, the geometry of motion, and non-uniform motion and gravitation, critique the modern relativity doctrine and advocate returning to intuitive, classical notions of measurement and reference frames. The book is a rigorous, polemical critique of Einsteinian relativity.

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