Relativity Theory: Alternative or Fiasco?

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Scientific Paper
Title Relativity Theory: Alternative or Fiasco?
Author(s) Boris I Peshchevitsky
Keywords relativity theory, Lorentz transformation, Galilean transformation, unequally privileged systems
Published 1992
Journal Galilean Electrodynamics
Volume 3
Number 6
Pages 103-105

Abstract

The unsurmountable obstacles of relativity theory are:

  1. its derivation requires three, not two postulates
  2. it can be confirmed by experiment only to the extend of 2/3
  3. the third, arbitrary postulate introduces local time into the reference frame
  4. the alternative of the Lorentz transformation is not the Galilean transformation, but a transformation among unequally privileged systems.

(Errata V4, N2, p. 37).