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GR: Gravitation und Relativitätstheorie

GR 18: Postersitzung

GR 18.3: Poster

Freitag, 4. März 2005, 14:00–19:00, Poster TU BH

Special Relativity - Explained by Particle Physics — •Albrecht Giese — Taxusweg 15, 22605 Hamburg

In the beginning there was the Michelson-Morley Experiment. It has - in contrary to the statement of many textbooks - in no way proven that an ether does not exist. Hendrik Lorentz has presented the calculation that fields contract during motion. As a consequence, all kinds of objects contract, and so does the Michelson apparatus. The null-result is inevitable.

Lorentz, though, could not explain why temporal processes slow down in motion. This gave Einstein the opportunity to present his ’brute force’ concept that space and time themselves are changing with motion.

In the meantime, however, (i.e. Dirac/Schrödinger 1928/30) we have learnt that elementary particles perform an internal oscillation at the speed of light. From this fact follows immediately that the oscillation, which is the time base in our world, slows down in motion at the Lorentz factor γ. So, this relativistic phenomenon, too, is explained - by the use of particle physics without any need of such extensive assumptions about space and time as Einstein has made.

The relativistic increase of mass in motion as well as the mass-energy equivalence are consequences of this approach.

For further info: www.ag-physics.org/relat