A Refutation of Special Relativity

The Special Theory of Relativity (SR) is shown to be untenable. SR is theoretically flawed because of its unjustified expectation of an inertial frame outcome for a non-inertial experimental design that places observer and apparatus in separate frames; a simple solution by Galilean velocity transformation indicates no time dilation. SR’s time dilation formulation is not invariant to rotations and velocity of the clock’s energy waves. Replacing the light clock by a sonar clock imposes the sound speed as an absurd universal speed limit. Key experiments thought to support SR, have also been remarkably reinterpreted using Newton’s Laws alone. The speed-limited E-field and spiral H-field trajectories of electrons are elegantly explained by augmenting the Lorentz force with a flux-proportional radiation damping Lentz force. Experiments upheld as favoring SR’s transverse Doppler effect, are exquisitely reinterpreted as due to impulsive momentum transfer to photons from accelerating emitters. Finally, Rossi’s classical experiments are re-analyzed to reveal μ-mesons traveling in the upper atmosphere at astonishing warp numbers up to 20. Consequently, the concept of time dilation, and its companion concept of Lorentz invariance are utterly indefensible and fundamentally unnecessary.