Do we really except the full implications of relativity? Our own Sun's mass shrinks by 4 billion kilograms every second and in our own galaxy there are 200-400 billion stars doing the exact same thing. Is the universe really expanding or are we just getting smaller?
Einstein’s relativity tells us that time is relative to your position in the universe and that the passage of time varies depending on the influence of gravity and how fast you are moving. This is an accepted and an experimentally proven fact, but do we yet fully understand the implications of what this really means to relativity?
Light, in a vacuum, travels one meter every 3.3 nanoseconds. Since 1983 this is how we define the length of one meter. We accept that, in a vacuum, the speed of light remains constant and Einstein states that time is relative to the speed at which you are traveling
If we accept these universal laws we must then also accept that the length of one meter, or distance, just like time must be relative to the speed at which you are traveling. If you have a one meter iron bar and heat it we know that the iron bar will expand, yet current theory tells us that kinetic energy applied to that same bar will not alter its length. Instead currently we state that the rest of the universe in front of it shrinks. Stranger still, according to current theory, a stationary observer would see the bar shrink in length. If you assume kinetic energy just like thermal energy increases the size of the iron bar because the measurement of one meter increases in length in the bars kinetic position. Then the iron bar sees the rest of the universe as being smaller and therefore distance shrinks.
This book casts a sceptical eye over current mainstream theories such as this and offers up an alternative view. Often, what really happens is already told by current theory and experimental evidence, we have just interpreted it incorrectly.
Einstein’s relativity tells us that time is relative to your position in the universe and that the passage of time varies depending on the influence of gravity and how fast you are moving. This is an accepted and an experimentally proven fact, but do we yet fully understand the implications of what this really means to relativity?
Light, in a vacuum, travels one meter every 3.3 nanoseconds. Since 1983 this is how we define the length of one meter. We accept that, in a vacuum, the speed of light remains constant and Einstein states that time is relative to the speed at which you are traveling
If we accept these universal laws we must then also accept that the length of one meter, or distance, just like time must be relative to the speed at which you are traveling. If you have a one meter iron bar and heat it we know that the iron bar will expand, yet current theory tells us that kinetic energy applied to that same bar will not alter its length. Instead currently we state that the rest of the universe in front of it shrinks. Stranger still, according to current theory, a stationary observer would see the bar shrink in length. If you assume kinetic energy just like thermal energy increases the size of the iron bar because the measurement of one meter increases in length in the bars kinetic position. Then the iron bar sees the rest of the universe as being smaller and therefore distance shrinks.
This book casts a sceptical eye over current mainstream theories such as this and offers up an alternative view. Often, what really happens is already told by current theory and experimental evidence, we have just interpreted it incorrectly.
