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AT OUR UPCOMING MEETING WE WILL BE EXPERIMENTING WITH SOMETHING A LITTLE DIFFERENT. OUR PRESENTATION ON THE LAST SUNDAY OF JULY WILL BE MADE BY FELLOW MEMBER ISRAEL SHAPIRA, WHO WILL OFFER SOME POINTED ARGUMENTS CHALLENGING FUNDAMENTAL ASPECTS OF A "HOLY GRAIL" OF MODERN PHYSICS, NAMELY EINSTEIN'S THEORY OF RELATIVITY.

In contrast to Sky Jason Shields' two-part lecture on attempts to reconcile relativity and quantum mechanics, Israel Shapira will highlight what he and some others see as fundamental flaws in the theory of relativity itself!

Although the conceptual details of Relativity (not to mention quantum physics) for more than a few of us can sometimes be challenging, Israel promises to make the ideas that he will present, readily understandable — or as he has written to me with perhaps only a dollop of hyperbole, "Don't worry, a 12 years old will be able to understand my presentation."

I'm confident that Israel who has shown himself to be a bright and adventurous thinker will make a forceful, but also accessible case for his "attack" on Relativity.

Israel Shapira was born in Israel and studied physics at UCLA. In 2003 he published an article in Israel's popular science magazine GALILEO about the 2nd Law of thermodynamics. The article which is in Hebrew is accessible through the following link: THE TRIAL OF THE SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS. Israel states that for the past five years he's spent considerable time and money on experiments trying to find an alternative to the Theory of Relativity.

Immediately below, just for the record and to put a face on these great contributors to physics, are images of several of the key figures whose contributions to physics at least in part, are quoted in support of Israel Shapira's challenge to Einstein's Theory of Relativity. You also may want to take a good look at a preview and outline of the presentation to be given by Israel, which follows the images of these physicists and which cites the role of their concepts in his arguments.

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ALAIN ASPECT

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JOHN STEWART BELL

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HEINRICH RUDOLPH HERTZ

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HENDRIK LORENTZ

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HENRI POINCARE

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JAMES CLERK MAXWELL

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MICHAEL FARADAY

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ARMAND FIZEAU

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ISAAC NEWTON

Below I've added just three very insightful videos (under 3 minutes, 52 minutes and 53 minutes in duration respectively), which touch on some of the basic and broadly accepted aspects of Relativity as it stands today in light of the theory having endured the test of time for over a century. As such they provide a perspective and basis of comparison for arguments opposed to the theory of Relativity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msZ790rgN7g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IJ7LUGeNc0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v99-S4_IvVg

So, I look forward to all of you joining us on Sunday, July 30 at 4:00 PM at our regular meeting place in Santa Monica, the Colorado Center Community Meeting Room, for what promises to be an eye-opening hard look at one of the cornerstones of modern physics from the critical personal perspective of fellow Quantum Physics Discussion Group member Israel Shapira.

In the interim, my best regards,

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JULIAN KRAININ

Grand Poobah & Overseer,

Quantum Physics Discussion Group

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WHAT FOLLOWS IS AN OUTLINE OF THE PRESENTATION TO BE MADE BY ISRAEL SHAPIRA TO OUR QUANTUM PHYSICS DISCUSSION GROUP. (PLEASE NOTE: There are a few unavoidable font & formatting inconsistencies in the following outline, which was submitted by Israel. These are mostly minor cosmetic issues, which are solely a result of software incompatibilities with this web site.)

THE PROBLEM WITH RELATIVITY

Part 1. A Brief History of Relativity

In 1861-1862 James Clerk Maxwell published his paper "On Physical Lines of Force" https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_Physical_Lines_of_Force In which he developed Michael Faraday's equations of electromagnetism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_equations) in conjunction with a "sea" of "molecular (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecule)vortices (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex)".

Maxwell built a hydrodynamic model of the "ether" and showed that in this "sea", a wave which he called "Electromagnetic wave" will propagate.

Maxwell used Newton's formula for waves in a hydrodynamic fluid for the speed of the wave: the density (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Density)ρ determine the speed of sound (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_sound)c (pressure waves (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-wave)), according to the Newton-Laplace formula:

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and showed that if we substitute K in the formula (elastic modulus (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elastic_modulus)) and the Greek letter row (density) with the known coefficients constants for electricity and magnetism, we get the speed of propagation of the wave in this "ether' medium.

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When he checked to see what the value of this speed, he found for his surprise that this is the speed of light as measured by Armand Fizeau in 1849 (see equation 136 in Maxwell's ether model):

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Maxwell then concluded that light is also an Electromagnetic wave.

Maxwell continued and derived in a latter paper his famous differential equations for Electromagnetism.

In 1887 Heinrich Hertz performed an experiment in which he demonstrated Maxwell's theory by transmitting and receiving an electromagnetic signal. This was actually the first radio broadcasting.

The question remained though of what is the rest frame of this "ether", this "sea" of "molecular (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecule) vortices (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex)"

The null result of the Michelson–Morley experiment in 1887:

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson%E2%80%93Morley_experiment along with other considerations, led Albert Einstein to publish in 1905 his paper: ON THE ELECTRODYNAMICS OF MOVING BODIES https://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/Einstein/specrel/www/ (https://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/www/) in which he introduced special relativity to the world.

In his theory, Einstein used 2 postulates:

The laws of physics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics) are the same for all observers in uniform motion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_frame_of_reference) relative to one another (principle of relativity (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_relativity)).

The speed of light (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_light) in a vacuum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum) is the same for all observers, regardless of their relative motion or of the motion of the light (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light) source.

Einstein showed that the problem of the rest frame of the ether that Michelson and Morley failed to find, is solved if we ignore the ether assumption and replace the notion of fixed space and time in Newtonian mechanics with relative parameters while the only fixed thing is c, the speed of light.

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Later in this year in another paper, Einstein showed that mass and energy are equivalent and related by the now famous formula: E=mc^2. 10 years later in 1915 Einstein expanded his theory to include gravity, in what's known as General relativity.

PART 2. CHALLENGES TO RELATIVITY

Even though there are nomathematical inconsistencies within the theory, physically relativity is so strange that many physicists found it very difficult to accept. Theoretical physicists such as Abraham, Lorentz, Poincaré, and Langevin still believed in the existence of an ether.

For example, Lorenz length contraction is especially difficult to comprehend and has no direct experimental support; http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/experiments.html#Length_Contraction

1. Tests of length contraction

At this time there are no direct tests of length contraction. Imagine that you move toward the the star Alpha centauri (4 light years away) fast enough so that gamma factor:

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is equal to 1000,000, and you take a picture of the star from earth. Since length contraction is only in the direction of your movement and not in the perpendicular coordinates, what will your picture show? — a huge star closer than the moon?

2. Inconsistencies with Quantum theory. Look at Sky Jason Shields' presentation, even though I missed June's lecture.

3. If Maxwell's Ether model is wrong — then how was he able to derive the speed of light from this wrong hydrodynamic model (equation 136 above) and his famous equations? Coincidence? Lucky guess? Magic?

4. First postulate of relativity:
The laws of physics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics) are the same for all observers in uniform motion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_frame_of_reference) relative to one another (principle of relativity (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_relativity)). This is inconsistent with big bang theory and cosmic microwave background radiation.

Look at that in the twin paradox when the young twin meets his older brother, the universe is colder at the time they meet according to Friedman's equation:

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Astro/expand.html#c3

Thus, during his travel which takes shorter time than his brother, he observe faster drop in the temperature than his brother, even though they are both in an inertial frames.

Note that acceleration is not a solution in this case: If the older twin was moving relative to the cmbr, he was the one to observe the rapid temperature drop, and the young one would stay warm and cozy.

5. In the EPR paradox (1935):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_paradox

Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen describe a thought experiment to show why Quantum Mechanics theory is incomplete. According to the article in wikipedia:

Here is the paradox summed up:

It is one thing to say that physical measurement of the first particle's momentum affects uncertainty in its own position, but to say that measuring the first particle's momentum affects the uncertainty in the position of the other is another thing altogether. Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen asked how can the second particle "know" to have precisely defined momentum but uncertain position? Since this implies that one particle is communicating with the other instantaneously across space, i.e., faster than light, this is the "paradox".

A variation of the experiment was performed by Alain Aspect in the 1980's, and was found to be consistent with Quantum Mechanics and John Stewart Bell's theorem, and against Einstein claim. A good description of the experiment and its implications could be found in Nick Herbert's 1975 paper:

A SIMPLE PROOF OF BELL'S THEOREM (from 1965)

http://quantumtantra.com/bell2.html

Later attempts to save relativity from Aspect's experiment were based on the claim that what relativity really forbids is the transfer of information, And it's impossible to send information with a Bell experiment (ASPECT is a bell experiment) According to no-communication theorem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem

Well, the fact that it's impossible to send information by entanglement was known already in 1935. So why do we have the notion in EPR's wikipedia paper:

"Since this implies that one particle is communicating with the other instantaneously across space"?

Would Einstein embarrass himself in face of the all world in his most important paper since General relativity? Or maybe the maestro saw that transfer of information faster than light and thus to the past, does occur in contradiction to relativity in the case of entanglement?

6.We can see an expansion of this idea in the following SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN's 2009 paper: A QUANTUM THREAT TO SPECIAL RELATIVITY

http://www-f1.ijs.si/~ramsak/teaching/km1/Einstein_0309032.pdf

"The status of special relativity, just more than a century after it was presented to the world, is suddenly a radically open and rapidly developing question. This situation has come about because physicists and philosophers have finally followed through on the loose ends of Einstein’s longneglected argument with quantum mechanics".

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