From Galileo to Lorentz… And Beyond

Joseph Lévy9780973291117, 0973291117

Assuming the existence of a fundamental aether frame and the anisotropy of the one-way speed of light in the Earth frame, two facts supported by theoretical arguments and repeatedly confirmed today by experiment, J. Levy derives a set of space-time transformations that are more general than the Lorentz-Poincaré transformations. The implications for fundamental physics are shown to be far-reaching.

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Table of contents :
Table of Contents……Page 101
Preface……Page 2
Acknowledgements……Page 3
Foreword……Page 5
Introduction……Page 8
Difficulties with Orthodox Relativity Theory……Page 14
Some Useful Concepts……Page 22
Extended Space-Time Transformations……Page 26
Inertial Transformations Derived from Galilean Transformations……Page 46
Arguments in Favour of Lorentz-Fitzgerald Contraction……Page 54
Implications for Fundamental Physics……Page 66
Mass and Energy in the Fundamental Aether Theory……Page 76
Synchronization Procedures and Light Velocity……Page 84
References……Page 92
Index……Page 99