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Sharol Birks
Sharol Birks
Residence	Kalispell, MT, United States

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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 is identified in 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 the papers describe 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, Birks 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, the argument is made 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 a triangle-based reinterpretation of the relationship expressed by pi is offered.

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

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 ==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.
+Birks lives in Kalispell, Montana, in the United States, and is identified in 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.
+Birks' published work is concerned with the geometrical foundations of relativity and with what the papers describe 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'', Birks 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.
+In the 2024 short communication ''The Triangles of Pi'', written with D. Birks, the argument is made 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 a triangle-based reinterpretation of the relationship expressed by pi is offered.
 ==Publications==