HIDDEN ABSURDITY IN EINSTEIN'S 1905 PAPER

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ON THE ELECTRODYNAMICS OF MOVING BODIES, by A. Einstein, June 30, 1905: "From this there ensues the following peculiar consequence. If at the points A and B of K there are stationary clocks which, viewed in the stationary system, are synchronous; and if the clock at A is moved with the velocity v along the line AB to B, then on its arrival at B the two clocks no longer synchronize, but the clock moved from A to B lags behind the other which has remained at B by tv^2/2c^2 (up to magnitudes of fourth and higher order), t being the time occupied in the journey from A to B. It is at once apparent that this result still holds good if the clock moves from A to B in any polygonal line, and also when the points A and B coincide."

Here Einstein refers to one conclusion ("moving clocks run more slowly") and remains silent about the other ("stationary clocks run more slowly"). The two conclusions are equipolent (even though in combination they form an absurdity) and the latter is equally derivable from the closed-polygonal-line scenario. Consider synchronous clocks (ants in the picture) travelling with constant speed along a rectangular line and passing a single stationary clock located in the middle of one of the sides of the rectangle:

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Einstein's relativity predicts that the single stationary clock runs more slowly than the travelling clocks it consecutively meets, in the sense that the difference between the reading of the travelling clock just being met and that of the single stationary clock increases with the number of meetings.

If clocks are replaced with ants, Einstein's relativity predicts that the single stationary ant is gradually getting younger than the travelling brothers it consecutively meets, in the sense that the difference between the age of the travelling ant just being met and that of the single stationary ant increases with the number of meetings. This contradicts the traditional twin paradox solution.

Clearly Einstein's relativity is an absurdity.

Pentcho Valev