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**William[_2_]**

wrote:
On Mar 8, 7:45 am, William wrote:

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In the derivation of Einstein relativity theory, propagating EM fields
are used to measure the location of points from a stationary frame to a
moving frame. This is done by measuring the time delay of a propagating
EM field from one frame to the other. Since the time delays very near
the source are instantaneous then it can be shown that the Lorentz
transforms reduce to the Galilean transforms there. This can be seen by
substituting infinity for c in the Lorentz transforms. In the farfield
the time delays of the fields increase to light-speed time delays and
the Lorentz transform applies there. A more detailed analysis is
presented in my latest paper:

http://xxx.lanl.gov/pdf/physics/0702166

The dilemma is that the space-time transformations should be independent
on whether near-field or far-field EM fields are used in the analysis.
My proposal is that Einstein relativity theory is a illusion caused by
the EM fields used to measure the space time effects in moving
reference systems. Space and time are actually inflexible as stated in
Galelian relativity and only appear flexible when far-field EM fields
are used to measure the space-time effects in moving reference frames.
When near-field EM fields are used, time dilation and space contraction
effects will disappear.

You may be right that a modification of relativity will be required
that allows superluminal speeds (as I argued this will not require
causality violations) but time dilation effects have been confirmed
for round trip measurements, which do not have the shortcoming of
needing light speed c time synchronization.
So time dilation will still be required.

Bob Clark

Perhaps the results need to be rechecked. All experiments are prone to
experimental error and researcher bias.