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Noninertial frames, velocity of light not constant, and absolute velocities

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In this paper, we show that the Hafele and Keating and the subsequent assumed confirming experiments of special relativity (SR) routinely use a nonspecified or probably the center of the Earth reference frame. These frames are not, anyway, inertial, appropriate for SR, as they accelerate around the Sun. However another, nevertheless, fictitious, but inertial frame, may be assumed, having as expected, a different velocity with respect to the Earth's center frame or whatever the assumed frame was. However, for any new proper inertial frame, the flying around the Earth clocks will have actually many different velocities. Therefore, a much different clock time dilation is found (depending on the velocities Vs of the frame of reference and the velocities of the two aeroplanes) than the initial time that was observed and was assumed to be predicted by special relativity and wrongly considered to be confirmed in the literature. Certain time dilations are found as time contraction or negative time dilation, never predicted by SR theory. The known velocity of light is shown to be a local numerical value. In general, the velocity of light is shown to be a variable. In this way, a newer theory of absolute velocity and kinetic energy becomes evidently needed and will eventually emerge. The first steps of this new theory are indicated here as examples.

Keywords: Absolute Kinetic Energy; Absolute Velocity; Earth Environment; Environment of Vacuum; Ether Drift; Noninertial Frames; Speed of Light

Document Type: Research Article

Publication date: 10 September 2016

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