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A theoretical discussion of the present results is undertaken with reference to Newton's original corpuscular theory of light. It is argued that his failure to predict that light travels more slowly in water than in air arose from the inadequacy of his mechanical theory rather than his assumptions about…

The erroneous prediction of the speed of light in dispersive media has been looked upon historically as unequivocal proof that Newton's corpuscular theory is incorrect. Examination of his arguments shows that they were only directly applicable to the momentum of photons, however, leaving open the…

The mks System is capable of making a concise description of the units of all dynamical variables in terms of the three fundamental quantities of distance (m), inertial mass (kg) and time (s). It is shown in Table 1 how these units can be represented by three-dimensional vectors in which the exponents…

The history of the development of the Uniform Scaling Method is reviewed. It has its beginning with the Law of Causality and Newton’s First Law of Kinetics (Law of Inertia). On this basis it can be concluded that the rates of clocks do not change spontaneously, i.e. without the application of some external…

A well-known prediction of the Lorentz transformation (LT) of Einstein’s theory of Special Relativity (SR) is that when two observers exchange light signals, they will both measure a red shift (lowering in frequency). An experiment with gamma rays was reported by Hay et al. in 1960 in which an absorber…

The Lorentz transformation (LT) is one of the most revered set of relationships in modern physics. Overlooked in this broad assessment are a number of clear inconsistencies in its predictions, however, as will be discussed herein. For example, it makes three predictions which are not consistent with…

There are many ways to prove that Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity (SR) is not valid. For example, the mixing of space and time coordinates predicted by the Lorentz Transformation (LT) is not consistent with the Law of Causality. Moreover, the combination of the FitzGerald-Lorentz length contraction…