From: kenseto on
SR is an incomplete aether theory.
Here's why:
1. The principle of relativity (PoR) says that all inertial frames
including the unique absolute rest frame of the aether are
equaivalent.

2. This allows every SR observer to choose any frame to do physics and
the rest frame of the aether is choosed because it is the simplest
frame to do physics.

3. Choosing the aether frame to do physics allows every SR observer to
claim the exclusive properties of the aether frame which are: All the
clocks moving wrt to an SR observer are running slow and all the ruler
moving wrt him are contracted.

4. However, choosing the aether frame to do physics is the reason why
SR is incomplete. In real life all objects (including every SR
observer)in the universe are in a state of absolute motion and the
rate of a clock is dependent on the state of absolute motion of the
clock. Therefore an SR observer cannot claim that all the clocks
moving wrt him are running slow and all the ruler moving wrt him are
contracted. In order to make SR complete an SR observer must include
the possibility that an observed clock can run at a faster rate than
his clock.

5. IRT is a new theory of relativity. An IRT observer includes the
possibilities that a clock moving wrt him can run fast by a factor of
gamma or run slow by a factor of 1/gamma. Also an IRT observer posits
that the light-path length of a meter stick moving wrt to him can be
shorter by a factor of 1/gamma or longer by a factor of gamma. The
standard for the light path length of the IRT observer's meter stick
is assumed to be its physical length. With these interpretation of
time and length all the problems and paradoxes of SR are resolved.

6. A complete description of IRT is available in the following link:
http://www.modelmechanics.org/2008irt.dtg.pdf

Ken Seto
From: Sam Wormley on
On 7/7/10 8:41 AM, kenseto wrote:
> SR is an incomplete aether theory.

There has never been an observation that contracts a prediction
of special relativity. It remains a very fruitful theory and
you should take the time to learn it, Seto. Hint: Special relativity
does not postulate or use the concept of aether!

What is the experimental basis of special relativity?
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/experiments.html

How do you add velocities in special relativity?
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/velocity.html

Can special relativity handle acceleration?
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/acceleration.html
From: Igor on
On Jul 7, 9:41 am, kenseto <kens...(a)erinet.com> wrote:
> SR is an incomplete aether theory.
> Here's why:
> 1. The principle of relativity (PoR) says that all inertial frames
> including the unique absolute rest frame of the aether are
> equaivalent.
>
> 2. This allows every SR observer to choose any frame to do physics and
> the rest frame of the aether is choosed because it is the simplest
> frame to do physics.
>
> 3. Choosing the aether frame to do physics allows every SR observer to
> claim the exclusive properties of the aether frame which are: All the
> clocks moving wrt to an SR observer are running slow and all the ruler
> moving wrt him are contracted.
>
> 4. However, choosing the aether frame to do physics is the reason why
> SR is incomplete. In real life all objects (including every SR
> observer)in the universe are in a state of absolute motion and the
> rate of a clock is dependent on the state of absolute motion of the
> clock. Therefore an SR observer cannot claim that all the clocks
> moving wrt him are running slow and all the ruler moving wrt him are
> contracted. In order to make SR complete an SR observer must include
> the possibility that an observed clock can run at a faster rate than
> his clock.
>
>  5. IRT is a new theory of relativity. An IRT observer includes the
> possibilities that a clock moving wrt him can run fast by a factor of
> gamma or run slow by a factor of 1/gamma. Also an IRT observer posits
> that the light-path length of a meter stick moving wrt to him can be
> shorter by a factor of 1/gamma or longer by a factor of gamma. The
> standard for the light path length of the IRT observer's meter stick
> is assumed to be its physical length. With these interpretation of
> time and length all the problems and paradoxes of SR are resolved.
>
> 6. A complete description of IRT is available in the following link:http://www.modelmechanics.org/2008irt.dtg.pdf
>
> Ken Seto

SR is not an aether theory. It got rid of the aether, pinhead.

From: PD on
On Jul 7, 8:41 am, kenseto <kens...(a)erinet.com> wrote:
> SR is an incomplete aether theory.

You must be talking about a theory other than SR, because:

> Here's why:
> 1. The principle of relativity (PoR) says that all inertial frames
> including the unique absolute rest frame of the aether are
> equaivalent.

The principle of equivalence explicitly says that there is no
preferred frame.
Your statement is equivalent to saying, "No man is better than any
other man, including the man that is better than other men."

>
> 2. This allows every SR observer to choose any frame to do physics and
> the rest frame of the aether is choosed because it is the simplest
> frame to do physics.

No, SR does NOT choose that frame. It uses any frame equally.

>
> 3. Choosing the aether frame to do physics allows every SR observer to
> claim the exclusive properties of the aether frame which are: All the
> clocks moving wrt to an SR observer are running slow and all the ruler
> moving wrt him are contracted.

That is not the exclusive property of the aether frame. That statement
is one you made up.

>
> 4. However, choosing the aether frame to do physics is the reason why
> SR is incomplete. In real life all objects (including every SR
> observer)in the universe are in a state of absolute motion and the
> rate of a clock is dependent on the state of absolute motion of the
> clock. Therefore an SR observer cannot claim that all the clocks
> moving wrt him are running slow and all the ruler moving wrt him are
> contracted. In order to make SR complete an SR observer must include
> the possibility that an observed clock can run at a faster rate than
> his clock.
>
>  5. IRT is a new theory of relativity. An IRT observer includes the
> possibilities that a clock moving wrt him can run fast by a factor of
> gamma or run slow by a factor of 1/gamma. Also an IRT observer posits
> that the light-path length of a meter stick moving wrt to him can be
> shorter by a factor of 1/gamma or longer by a factor of gamma. The
> standard for the light path length of the IRT observer's meter stick
> is assumed to be its physical length. With these interpretation of
> time and length all the problems and paradoxes of SR are resolved.
>
> 6. A complete description of IRT is available in the following link:http://www.modelmechanics.org/2008irt.dtg.pdf
>
> Ken Seto

From: Sam Wormley on
On 7/7/10 8:41 AM, kenseto wrote:
> SR is an incomplete aether theory.

Einstein wrote in 1905:
"The introduction of a "luminiferous ether" will prove
to be superfluous inasmuch as the view here to be
developed will not require an "absolutely stationary
space" provided with special properties, nor assign a
velocity-vector to a point of the empty space in which
electromagnetic processes take place".

See:

ON THE ELECTRODYNAMICS OF MOVING BODIES
By A. Einstein
June 30, 1905

It is known that Maxwell's electrodynamics--as usually
understood at the present time--when applied to moving
bodies, leads to asymmetries which do not appear to be
inherent in the phenomena.

Take, for example, the reciprocal electrodynamic action
of a magnet and a conductor. The observable phenomenon
here depends only on the relative motion of the conductor
and the magnet, whereas the customary view draws a sharp
distinction between the two cases in which either the one
or the other of these bodies is in motion. For if the
magnet is in motion and the conductor at rest, there
arises in the neighbourhood of the magnet an electric
field with a certain definite energy, producing a current
at the places where parts of the conductor are situated.

But if the magnet is stationary and the conductor in
motion, no electric field arises in the neighbourhood of
the magnet. In the conductor, however, we find an
electromotive force, to which in itself there is no
corresponding energy, but which gives rise--assuming
equality of relative motion in the two cases
discussed--to electric currents of the same path and
intensity as those produced by the electric forces in the
former case.

Examples of this sort, together with the unsuccessful
attempts to discover any motion of the earth relatively
to the "light medium," suggest that the phenomena of
electrodynamics as well as of mechanics possess no
properties corresponding to the idea of absolute rest.

They suggest rather that, as has already been shown to (1)
the first order of small quantities, the same laws of
electrodynamics and optics will be valid for all frames
of reference for which the equations of mechanics hold
good. We will raise this conjecture (the purport of which
will hereafter be called the ``Principle of Relativity'')
to the status of a postulate,

and also introduce another postulate, which is only (2)
apparently irreconcilable with the former, namely, that
light is always propagated in empty space with a definite
velocity c which is independent of the state of motion of
the emitting body.

These two postulates suffice for the attainment of a
simple and consistent theory of the electrodynamics of
moving bodies based on Maxwell's theory for stationary
bodies.

The introduction of a "luminiferous ether" will prove
to be superfluous inasmuch as the view here to be
developed will not require an "absolutely stationary
space" provided with special properties, nor assign a
velocity-vector to a point of the empty space in which
electromagnetic processes take place.

And, of course the paper goes on to develop the ideas
and make his case...