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- From: wolf@doppel.first.gmd.de (Wolfgang Koehler)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: An Alternative Physical Model for SR
- Message-ID: <WOLF.92Dec28193000@doppel.first.gmd.de>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 18:30:00 GMT
- References: <1992Dec28.163045.15897@spdc.ti.com>
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- In-reply-to: tigelaar@epcot.spdc.ti.com's message of 28 Dec 92 16:30:45 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec28.163045.15897@spdc.ti.com> tigelaar@epcot.spdc.ti.com (Howard Tigelaar) writes:
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- A second physical model is presented which also explains the
- equations of special relativity and Minkowski diagrams. I realize
- there is virtually no chance of this model being correct but I
- would like to know if this model was considered before and if so
- what experimental evidence was used to reject it or if I have made
- fundamental errors in developing this proposed model. In special
- relativity, we first choose a physical model of the photon and then
- use the equations of special relativity to predict space/time
- interactions given the model. It is more the physical model of the
- photon than the equations of special relativity that determines the
- physics of space/time.
- [stuff deleted]
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- I think you have narrowed SR too much if you think it describes only
- the behaviour of photons.
- (Sorry if I missed other intentions)
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- First SR is a *general* theory of space and time where all kinds of
- classical fields are acting in (including gravity.)
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- Especially it is the first theory that gives a consistent explanation
- of Maxwells equations (the equations for all electromagnetic interactions).
- These eqs. contain "c" as a parameter and SR as the first stated that c
- is a constant in all reference frames.
- The simplification of these eqs. with the introduction of SR is enormous
- since it reduces 4 independent eqs to only two.
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- wolf
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