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The proposed chapter enunciates the physical laws governing the way that the rates of atomic clocks vary in free space with their state of motion and position in a gravitational field. However, such ideal conditions are periodically disrupted by space-weather events that can lead to critical deviations…

The history of the longitudinal polarization experiments carried out by Wu et al, in 1957 is reviewed. It is pointed out that the conclusion that these results are an indication of parity non-conservation in weak decays rests on a key assumption, namely that the electron and neutrino are created in the…

Light refraction is a common phenomenon that is readily observed with the naked eye. Yet a mathematical formula to describe the effect was only realized in the early 17thcentury. In terms of the modern-day quantity refractive index n, Snell’s result is: n1 sinΘ1= n2 sinΘ2, where Θ1and Θ2, are the respective…

The Galilean Velocity transformation (GVT) is a very useful tool in everyday life. For example, consider a truck passing someone standing on a street corner. The truck is moving at a constant speed of v=40km/h relative to him. The driver reports that there is a car moving ahead of him in the same direction…

The arguments employed by Einstein that led him to the conclusion that “we cannot attach absolute meaning to the concept of simultaneity” are subjected to critical analysis in light of experiments that have subsequently been carried out with atomic clocks. The physical significance of time dilation is…

According to the dy=dy' equation of the Lorentz transformation (LT) of the special theory of relativity (STR), the value of any distance interval measured on a moving object that is oriented transverse to the velocity of that object should be independent of its relative speed to the observer. It is known…

Wave functions obtained using a standard complex Hamiltonian matrix diagonalization procedure are square integrable and therefore constitute only approximations to the corresponding resonance solutions of the Schrödinger equation. The nature of this approximation is investigated by means of explicit…

There are two versions of time dilation in Einstein’s original paper on special relativity theory (SRT). It is pointed out that they differ in a crucial respect, namely whether the phenomenon is symmetric or asymmetric. The Clock Paradox arises from belief in the latter version, which asserts that a…