Overview
All accelerated particles can be transformed and seen as in uniform motion. This is shown in this work, with examples, calculations, and has been studied for more than 100 years. Based on this and college sophomore-level knowledge, this work develops a description of special relativity (SR) that applies to arbitrary, including accelerated, motion.Time cannot be uniquely split from spacetime, and the same is true with space. This work includes general relativity (GR), although GR is not regularly offered at college sophomore-level. GR gives a better basis in undergraduate courses, and underlies much of the contemporary understanding of modern physics, including the big bang, pulsars, quasars,and gravitational waves. The laws of SR are just often simpler when they work in-between inertial frames, as originally stated. The extension of SR to arbitrary motion and GR constitutes the basics of this joint study of SR and GR, in terms of the same spacetime formulation, presenting a consistent theory. The GR principle of equivalence, however, is shown to have problems, when not formulated as originally stated by Einstein - a freely-falling observer in a gravitational field does not feel gravity. There is no statement that acceleration produces gravity.
- | Author: Edgardo V. Gerck
- | Publisher: Independently published
- | Publication Date: October 23, 2019
- | Number of Pages: 80 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1701945150
- | ISBN-13: 9781701945159
