Special relativity: Its inconsistency with the standard wave equation
By means of the Lorentz Transformation, Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity purports invariance of the standard wave equation. Counter-examples, satisfying the Lorentz Transformation, and hence Lorentz Invariance, prove that the Lorentz Transformation does not in fact produce invariance
of the standard wave equation. Systems of clock-synchronized stationary observers are Galilean and necessarily transform by the Galilean Transformation. Einstein's insistence that inertial (i.e., Galilean) systems of clock-synchronized stationary observers transform, not by the Galilean Transformation,
but by the non-Galilean Lorentz Transformation, is logically inconsistent. The Special Theory of Relativity is therefore logically inconsistent. Therefore, it is false. The Lorentz Transformation is meaningless.
Keywords: Clock Synchronization; Lorentz Transformation; Special Relativity; Time; Wave Equation
Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: 20 June 2018
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