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GR: Fachverband Gravitation und Relativitätstheorie

GR 16: Alternative Approaches

GR 16.3: Talk

Friday, April 3, 2020, 09:30–09:45, H-HS IX

A solution of the interpretation problem of Lorentz transforms — •Grit Kalies — HTW University of Applied Sciences Dresden

By connecting the energy concepts of thermodynamics and special theory of relativity (SR) it can be shown that Einstein's interpretation of the well-known equation E = mc^2 as complete mass-energy equivalence results as a special case for moving point masses and contradicts the first and second laws of thermodynamics. Thermodynamics suggests matter-energy equivalence with an energetic distinction between matter and mass [1, 2].

Due to the observer dependence of quantities in SR, the changes in time, length, mass etc. with velocity should be apparent on the one hand, but on the other hand they are measured and partly described as real, which is called the "interpretation problem" [3] of Lorentz transforms that exists within SR since more than a hundred years. In this paper is shown that the interpretation problem can be solved by means of matter-energy equivalence, in full agreement with the experimental evidence and newer findings of quantum physics [2].

[1] G. Kalies: Matter-Energy Equivalence, Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie, 2019, DOI: 10.1515/zpch-2019-1487. [2] G. Kalies: Vom Energieinhalt ruhender Körper: Ein thermodynamisches Konzept von Materie und Zeit, De Gruyter, Berlin, 2019. [3] P. Lorenzen: Theorie der technischen und politischen Vernunft, Reclam, Stuttgart, 1978.