What is it about?

The article provides a detailed explanation of the error known as 'time dilation due to motion' first invented theoretically in 1905. Experiments with a laser device emitting photons reflected from a target at 30 meters distance demonstrate that photons from lateral moving sources exhibit a matching lateral component of velocity while angle traveling at speed c toward the lateral moving target. One and two dimensional theoretic experiments quickly demonstrate how observers in motion with a moving target compute time for a light event incorrectly. Light speed is fixed at c with respect to the coordinate in space at which it is produced, but not with respect to the moving source or detector themselves. Therefore the time required for light to travel toward a moving detector depends on the velocity of the target. A stationary observer more easily computes time than a moving observer unable to sense the true distance light travels in the event. The special theory of relativity is rewritten in a way that corrects for this mistake that clarifies the original postulates.

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Why is it important?

The idea that time for an event depends on the motion of an observer or detector that do not control that event is a widely disseminated blunder that has plagued the discipline of Physics for over 118 years. This needs to be corrected .

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In 1966 our Physics teacher took us to Harvey Mudd College where we were given an exam that contained a question based on a false premise. Although light speed is fixed at c from its own coordinate of origin in space or form its own instantaneous spatial coordinate, the velocity of light with respect to a moving object is not c.. Investigating the issue experimentally over the last 50 years has led to the formal disproof of time dilation and a more accurately written special theory of relativity.

Dr. Richard Sauerheber
Palomar Community College

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This page is a summary of: On the nature of light and relativity, Physics Essays, March 2014, Physics Essays Publication,
DOI: 10.4006/0836-1398-27.1.116.
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