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Table of Contents

• Preamble

PART I The Lead up to Special Relativity (Chapters 1 - 17)

1. Introduction and Overview
2. Absolute Concepts of Space, Time, Rest and Motion
3. Techniques and Conventions of Mathematical Measurements
4. Inertia, Newton's Three Laws of Motion and Covariance
5. Galileo's Sensory and Empirical Concepts of Relativity
6. Electromagnetism, the Velocities of Light, and Ether
7. Early Attempts to Understand the Velocity of Light
8. The Dopper Effects of Sound and Light
9. The Michelson and Morley Experiments
10. False Assumptions Which Caused the Michelson and Morley Paradox
11. What Theoretically Could Cause a Fringe Shift?
12. Real Reasons for Michelson's Paradoxical Null Results
13. Lange's Abstract Relativity and Inertial Reference Frames
14. The Galilean Translational Transformation Equations
15. The Contraction Hypotheses of Fitzgerald and Lorentz
16. The Lorentz Transformations and Poincare's Relativity
17. Mattter, Mass and Electromagnetic Mass

PART II The Unnecessary Special theory of Relativity (Chapters 18 - 42)

18. Overview of Einstein's Special Theory
19. The "Difficulties" Which Triggered Special Relativity
20. Einstein's Major Assumptions, Postulates and Goals
21. Einstein's False Premises Regarding the Velocity of Light
22. How and Why Light Really Transmits and Propagates
23. Why Concepts of Matter Are Irreconcilable with Light
24. Why Einstein's Principle of Relativity Was Invalid
25. Flawed Concepts of Simultaneity and Common Time
26. Relativity of Simultaneity and Relativity of Distance
27. Invention of Einstein's Lorentz Transformations
28. Relativistic Kinematics: Length Contraction, Time Dilation
29. The Relativistic Composition of Velocities
30. Applications of Einstein's Kinematics to Electromagnetics
31. Relativistic Dynamics: Mass, Momentum, Force and Energy
32. The Matter, Mass and Energy Relationships
33. The Meaning and Distortion of Spacetime
34. (In progress)
35. Particle Physics, QED, Superstrings and Special Relativity
36. Failed General Confirmations of Special Relativity
37. Failed Confirmations of Time Dilation and Relativistic Doppler Effects
38. Other Failed Confirmations of Time Dilation (in progress)
39. The Real Modifications of Space, Time, Motion and Mass (in progress)
40. The Unnecessary and Contradictory General Theory (in progress)
41. What is the Proper Role of Mathematics in Physics?
42. Conclusions of One Relative Observer (in progress)

Other resources

• Letter from the Author
• Preface
• Summary
• Bibliography
• The Great Einstein-Maxwell Debate about Light

Other works by the author

• Relativity of Gravity
• The Day the Universe Stopped Expanding
• The Michelson-Morley Paradox Solved