by HannonRJ » Fri Mar 28, 2008 3:19 pm
I first became interested in "relativity" after I retired twenty years ago. I had spent 40+ years working in the most advanced areas of military and civilian electronics. I had a life-long interest in science, and had long desired to fully understand the currently-accepted belief of physicists. Since "relativity is one of the fundamental beliefs of modern physics, I started to study its origins in detail. I initially found the simple math of the first three sections of OEMB a bit baffling, but like most people I couldn't believe that the "great genius" Einstein could have made errors in algebra and logic. When I encountered them, I tried to figure out what it was that I must have been misunderstanding. I found that there were others who questioned Einstein, and corresponded with several, who mostly questioned his logic rather than his math. I did find some people who helped me to understand the math, particularly the rather odd relationship I now call "the three taus equation".
I think Einstein had good intentions, but also was very lucky to have some very smart friends, and to have been born and grown to adulthood when there were very few theoretical physicists practicing in the western world. Most of Einstein's ideas were not entirely original. SR existed since the work of Voigt, ca 1880, and had been extended by Larmor, Poincare, Lorentz, and others. I doubt that OEMB would have been accepted for publication by any of the journals of today's physics establishment.
Over the years I have published articles on Einstein's algebra (and other subjects) in non-eastablishment journals. I found that the physics establishment is not interested in such subjects.