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GR: Fachverband Gravitation und Relativitätstheorie

GR 8: Poster

GR 8.11: Poster

Wednesday, March 2, 2016, 17:30–19:00, VMP6 Foyer

Lorentz interpretation of GRT – the book and its review — •Jürgen Brandes — Karlsruhe, Germany

Dr. habil. Ludwig Neidhart reviewed the book [1] concerning Lorentz interpretation of SRT and GRT written by J. Brandes and J. Czerniawski. He recommends book [1] even to those who are critical against Lorentz interpretation of GRT (LI of GRT) and especially to those who don’t know it at all: "Auch wer dem Standpunkt der Autoren kritisch gegenübersteht, wird es mit Gewinn lesen können, weil …[2]". Also, the well-known gravitational physicist Kip S. Thorne accepts both standpoints as correct, the curved spacetime paradigm or classical GRT and the flat spacetime paradigm or LI of GRT. He asks: "Is spacetime really curved? Isn’t it conceivable that spacetime is actually flat, but the clocks and rulers with which we measure it …are actually rubbery?" and his answer is: "Yes." [2]. The poster presents these ideas and the total review of L. Neidhart.

[1] J. Brandes, J. Czerniawski: Spezielle und Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie für Physiker und Philosophen - Einstein- und Lorentz-Interpretation, Paradoxien, Raum und Zeit, Experimente, 4. Aufl., VRI 2010, [2] Website www.grt-li.de