Changwei Hu
Changwei Hu | |
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| Nationality | Chinese |
| Known for | Compressible ether theory of gravitation and relativity |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical physics |
Changwei Hu (Hu Changwei) is a Chinese independent researcher known for an ether-based approach to gravitation and relativity. He is listed in The Worldwide List of Dissident Scientists.
Work
Hu argues that space is filled with a physical ether and that light is a wave in this ether, propagating at a speed that varies with the ether's density. On this basis he has attempted to derive the Lorentz transformation from fluid mechanics and to reinterpret the foundations of relativity theory, cosmology and gravitation as consequences of a compressible ether. He has published on "the theory of compressibility ether" and has contributed a chapter applying the "Smarandache geometrical model" to macro-physics, in which he distinguishes Newtonian, special-relativistic and general-relativistic subspaces of a single geometry. He is associated with the Beijing Relativity Theory Research Federation.
Hu's ether-based reformulations lie outside the scientific mainstream and have not been adopted by the physics community.