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& | '''Sharol Birks''' is an independent researcher based in the United States who has published critical analyses of the geometry underlying the theory of relativity and of the mathematical treatment of pi. | ||
==Biography== | |||
Birks lives in Kalispell, Montana, in the United States, and describes herself in her published work simply as an "Independent Researcher, USA", working outside of any university or institutional affiliation. | |||
==Work== | |||
Birks' published work is concerned with the geometrical foundations of relativity and with what she regards as inconsistencies in the conventional handling of the constant pi. In ''Pi in the Sky'' (2023) and ''A Geometric Analysis of Relativity'' (2023), both appearing in the ''Journal of Physics & Optics Sciences'', she examines relativistic derivations — including the right-triangle construction commonly used to interpret the Michelson–Morley experiment and to derive time dilation — and argues that these constructions contain internal contradictions. | |||
In the 2024 short communication ''The Triangles of Pi'', written with D. Birks, she argues that treating the circumference of a circle and its radius as directly comparable lengths amounts to what the paper calls a "mathematical transgression" of mixing unities, and offers a triangle-based reinterpretation of the relationship expressed by pi. | |||
==Publications== | |||
* Birks, Sharol. "Pi in the Sky", ''Journal of Physics & Optics Sciences'', 2023, vol. 5. DOI: 10.47363/JPSOS/2023(5)197 | |||
* Birks, Sharol. "A Geometric Analysis of Relativity", ''Journal of Physics & Optics Sciences'', 2023. | |||
* Birks, D. and Birks, S. "The Triangles of Pi", ''Journal of Physics & Optics Sciences'', 2024, vol. 6(9), pp. 1–2. ISSN 2754-4753 | |||
[[Category:Scientist|Birks Sharol]] | [[Category:Scientist|Birks Sharol]] | ||
[[Category:Worldwide List of Dissident Scientists]] | [[Category:Worldwide List of Dissident Scientists]] | ||
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Sharol Birks is an independent researcher based in the United States who has published critical analyses of the geometry underlying the theory of relativity and of the mathematical treatment of pi.
Biography
Birks lives in Kalispell, Montana, in the United States, and describes herself in her published work simply as an "Independent Researcher, USA", working outside of any university or institutional affiliation.
Work
Birks' published work is concerned with the geometrical foundations of relativity and with what she regards as inconsistencies in the conventional handling of the constant pi. In Pi in the Sky (2023) and A Geometric Analysis of Relativity (2023), both appearing in the Journal of Physics & Optics Sciences, she examines relativistic derivations — including the right-triangle construction commonly used to interpret the Michelson–Morley experiment and to derive time dilation — and argues that these constructions contain internal contradictions.
In the 2024 short communication The Triangles of Pi, written with D. Birks, she argues that treating the circumference of a circle and its radius as directly comparable lengths amounts to what the paper calls a "mathematical transgression" of mixing unities, and offers a triangle-based reinterpretation of the relationship expressed by pi.
Publications
- Birks, Sharol. "Pi in the Sky", Journal of Physics & Optics Sciences, 2023, vol. 5. DOI: 10.47363/JPSOS/2023(5)197
- Birks, Sharol. "A Geometric Analysis of Relativity", Journal of Physics & Optics Sciences, 2023.
- Birks, D. and Birks, S. "The Triangles of Pi", Journal of Physics & Optics Sciences, 2024, vol. 6(9), pp. 1–2. ISSN 2754-4753