Special Relativity and Its Experimental Foundations

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• Introduces key points of Einstein's special relativity theory, three other flat space-time theories and experiments conducted to test them. The discussion of the theories is focused primarily on the different definitions of simultaneity with regard to the inertial frames of reference. The bulk of the volume is devoted to exclamations and comparisons of different experiments which are, in the main, contrasted to Einstein's theory. Experiments discussed include tests on: the constancy of the velocity of light using directionality and moving sources of light, time dilation with reference to the Doppler effect and dilation of moving mesons, electromagnetism and the Fresnel drag affect, variations of mass with velocity, and the upper bounds of photon mass.
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• This book is divided into two parts. In the first part we introduce the foundations of special relativity, such as, the inertial frame of reference, the definition of simulataneity, velocity addition, length contraction, the apparent shape of a moving body, time-dilation, Doppler effect, and the Thomas precession, in particular, the simultaneity problem and slow transport of clocks are investigated in detail by means of the test theories of special relativity. In the second, part, variant types of experiments performed up to now are analyzed and compared to the predictions of special relativity.
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  This shows that the experiemnts are a test of the two-way speed of light, but not of the one-way speed of light.
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