Three Fundamental Questions Challenging Einstein’s Relativity
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.48165/Keywords:
Special relativity, General relativity, Acceleration, Gravitation, Gravitational potential, Inertial observer, Schwarzschild observer, Angular velocityAbstract
This article, after reviewing briefly the current circumstances of publishing dissenting articles that, say, suggest some rebuttals to relativity or quantum mechanics in (non-)mainstream media, calls into question Einstein’s relativity theory accusing it of incompleteness and being ill-defined. It is demonstrated that the physical effects of acceleration have dramatically been overlooked by Einstein as he was extending the special theory to the general one so that such a deficiency gives rise to absurdities in both special and general relativity.
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