Abstract
Abstract: “No matter how long one has lived with the results of special relativity, there is something very counter intuitive about it.” . “I believe that I have really found the relationship between gravitation and electricity, assuming that the Miller experiments are based on a fundamental error. Otherwise, the whole relativity theory collapses like a house of cards.”1 The purpose of this article is to focus upon that seemingly illogical state of affairs. Einstein used the “Gedankin,” or “thought experiment,” to illustrate what he thought happens during the propagation of light. One must determine where the pulse is in relation to the source. The determination requires detectors, otherwise nothing can be determined. Albert was not too diligent in determining where the light pulse actually might be. If these early theorists had noticed that the speed of light, at 300 million meters a second, is better stated as being about a foot per nanosecond; then the immensity of distance vs time becomes trivial. A given distance in feet then becomes the same number of nanoseconds in time. The place in space where a pulse of light is detected with at rest with the source detectors is straight forward, but counter intuitive for moving frame detectors; when the distances between these detectors are compared in a coordinate system of their own. This essay will hopefully shed some light on the subject.
Robt Curtis Youngs