Anthony F. Maers
Anthony F. Maers | |
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| Known for | Doppler-based alternative to special relativity |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Cornell University |
Anthony F. Maers is a researcher known for proposing, with Randy Wayne of Cornell University, an alternative approach to the theory of special relativity based on the Doppler effect. He is listed in The Worldwide List of Dissident Scientists.
Work
Maers and Wayne authored "Rethinking the Foundations of the Theory of Special Relativity: Stellar Aberration and the Fizeau Experiment" (arXiv:1105.2305, 2011). They propose a relativistic wave equation founded on what they call the primacy of the Doppler effect, which they argue accounts for the propagation of light between two inertial frames — including stellar aberration and the results of the Fizeau moving-water experiment — without introducing the relativity of space and time. They also reported a laboratory reconstruction of the Fizeau experiment using laser light and digital image analysis. The work appeared in arXiv's General Physics section and its reinterpretation of special relativity is not accepted by the mainstream physics community.