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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…

The Lorentz transformation (LT) of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity (STR) is analyzed with respect to its internal consistency. The LT leads to the prediction of time dilation and length contraction in moving rest frames. In addition, the relativistic velocity transformation (RVT) is derived from…

The Lorentz transformation (LT) of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity (STR) leads to the prediction of time dilation and length contraction in moving rest frames. In addition, the relativistic velocity transformation (RVT) is derived from the LT by simply taking the ratios of its space and time…

The history of the derivations of relativistic space-time transformations is reviewed. Starting with Voigt in 1887, the key assumption was that the speed of light is the same for all observers independent of their state of motion and that of the light source. The fact that fundamentally different transformations…

A review of the predictions of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity (STR) shows that two of them, remote non-simultaneity and time dilation, are incompatible with each other. It is claimed thereby that two numbers, time differences for the same event that are measured by observers in different states…

The Breit-Pauli Hamiltonian is adjusted through the addition of momentum-dependent exponential damping factors so that it possesses eigenfunctions which correspond to a tightly bound e+e- state with 2moec2 binding energy. The success which the corresponding Schrödinger-type calculations achieves calls…