{"id":763,"date":"2012-11-01T11:29:46","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T16:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com\/?p=763"},"modified":"2012-11-01T11:30:36","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T16:30:36","slug":"classical-interpretations-of-relativistic-phenomena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com\/?p=763","title":{"rendered":"Classical Interpretations of Relativistic Phenomena"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sankar Hajra<\/em><\/div>\n
Indian Physical Society, Calcutta, India<\/em><\/div>\n
Email: sankarhajra@yahoo.com<\/em><\/div>\n
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Introduction<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Important observations on the behavior of light waves began to be performed from the time of Roemer (1670) and important experiments on electricity and magnetism began to be conducted from the time of Coulomb (1783). Maxwell (1865) tried to unify both streams of knowledge and dared to realize what light was. There were numerous experiments to demonstrate that Maxwell\u2019s theory was correct, though some might argue that the theory was inadequate.<\/div>\n
In the Maxwell\u2019s theory, if c is considered to be the speed of light in free space, Maxwell\u2019s equations are then valid in free space where the earth is obviously moving with an appreciable velocity. Therefore, the Maxwell\u2019s equations should be affected on the surface of the moving ear- th. But curiously, all electromagnetic phenomena as observed on the surface of the moving earth are independent of the movement of this planet. To dissolve this problem, Einstein (1905) assumes that Maxwell\u2019s equations are invariant to all observers in steady motion which acts as the foundation of Special Relativity. In the second place, the relativistic mass formula is routinely confirmed in particle accelerators. Therefore, Special Relativity is held to be more acceptable than Classical Electrodynamics. In the second decade of the past century, Einstein extended his special relativity to General relativity, a space-time curvature physics wherein he explained many puzzling gravitational phenomena with the application of his space-time curvature proposition.<\/div>\n
From the days of inception of the theory of relativity (1905), numerous physicists like Paul Ehrenfest (1909), Ludwig Silberstein (1920), Philipp Lenard (1920), Herbert Dingle (1950), F. R. Tangherlini (1968), T. G. Barnes et al. (1976), R. Tian & Z. Li (1990) and many others have doubted (fully or partially) over the foundation of the theory of relativity and many of them have proposed alternative approaches.<\/div>\n
In the period between the last decade of the last century and the first decade of the present century (1991-2010), C. A. Zapffe, Paul Marmet, A. G. Kelly, N. Hamdan, R. Honig and many others have made important contributions in this direction.<\/div>\n
In the first part of this paper, we have shown that the mass of a point charge as per Classical Electrodynamics is the same as that of Special Relativity and the foundation of both the deductions lies in Classical Electrodynamics of Heaviside (1988). Therefore, mass formula confirmed by the particle accelerators is fully consistent with Classical Electrodynamics too.<\/div>\n
In the second part, we have shown that the consideration of the effects of gravitational field of the earth on electromagnetic entities easily explains classically those puzzling gravitational phenomena (explained by Einstein) as well as why all electromagnetic phenomena as observed on earth\u2019s surface are independent of the movement of the earth; and this elucidates that both the invariant proposition and the space-time curvature proposition of Einstein are unnecessary.<\/div>\n
Our goal is to show here the efficacy of the classical physics to interpret relativistic phenomena rationally and easily. In this study we have only used Maxwell\u2019s electromagnetic equations, Newton\u2019s equations of motions and his theory of gravitation. We have used no theory of our own.<\/div>\n
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