Re: Finally, Special Relativity Is Proven False


-For those unable to appreciate the proof against SR, based on the Muon
experiment above, I am analyzing the experiment again, and then posit
an explanation why it is erroneous. It may take you ten or twenty
minutes to pick this up, but the payoff is big: you can now argue
solidly against SR with any physics professor who would take its side.
(You may also need the David Arguments in an earlier post).-


Muons are posited to have a half-life of about 2 microseconds in the
resting state. They are formed in the upper atmosphere and travel
towards the earth at speed ~c. One reference frame is as good as the
other, and we look at both.

Let us first analyze this in the *-muon frame-*. The muon observes the
earth travelling at ~c, and covers a distance of c x 2us ~ 600m prior to
decay of the muon. Note that while the moving earth frame may be
contracted, the distances covered in the stationary muon frame are
not.
Let us analyze this in the *-earth frame-*. An observer on earth
perceives a muon also travelling at ~c, and reaching 6000m, implying a
moving half-life of ~20us. This appears time dilated by a factor of
~10 from the posited resting muon half-life and is invoked as
experimental proof of SR. Note that while the moving muon frame may be
contracted, the distance it covered in the stationary earth frame is
not.

But wait a minute, in the first analyses, the muon-earth distance is
decreased by 600m, and in the second analyses, by 6000m. Both
represent -non-contracted- distance. In the -first analyses-, the muon
-does not- reach the lower atmosphere, while in the second it does. We
know that the muon does reach the lower atmosphere. So where is the
error?

The error must then be somewhere in the -first analyses-. Since the
computations are straightforward, the error must be in the single
variable that is used, namely the half-life of the muon. Let us repeat
the analyses using a new value, say ~20us.

Again, let us first analyze this in the *-muon frame-*. The muon
observes the earth travelling at ~c, and covers a distance of c x 20us
~ 6000m prior to decay of the muon. Note that while the earth frame
may be contracted, distances in the muon frame are not. So far so
good.
Again, let us analyze this in the *-earth frame-*. This is tricky so
take it slow. An observer on earth perceives a muon travelling at ~c
and reaching 6000m. The moving half-life is calculated at ~20us. From
the earth perspective, the muon?s internal clock is running slow, and
only registers ~2us during this journey.
_Note_that_this_value_is_not_the_half_life_of_the_resting_muon,_as_the_muon_is_not_resting,_and_the_clock_that_measured_it_is_slow._
By reversing the time dilation factor, it is easily calculated that the
muon?s internal clock would tick 20us in the *-muon perspective-* prior
to its decay. Everything is fine and dandy.

Of course, we made the *-assumption that the muon?s half life is really
20us, moving or not-*. If true, the error then lies in the measurement
of the half life. Really?

As we speak, a muon detector at CIT is measuring 'resting' muon
half-lives. A quick review of the data reveals a range of ~1 to ~10us.
How exactly does one obtain a *-resting-* muon? Well, the muon is
assumed to be at rest if it is captured by the detector. What is meant
by *-capture-*? The muon does not simply stop. It is picked up by a
large nucleus, where it reacts with a proton to produce a neutrino and
neutron. It does not really sound like our muon just stopped, more
like our muon was lassoed in. There are many potential sources of
error in this set-up. *-One-*, a resting muon is not the same as a
muon in bed with a proton. *-Two-*, even if they may be the same, the
reaction of the muon with the proton may speed up its decay. We all
know that bound and unbound neutrons have different half lives.
*-Three-*, this set-up only captures the low energy muons, which
creates the statistical folly of a sampling error. *-Finally-*, why
would a resting muon and a muon at constant velocity have different
half lives? Is it not the basic principle of SR that the laws of
physics are the same in all reference frames. A frame with the resting
muon ought to see the same half life as the frame of a moving muon.

The muon experiment is not proof of SR. Assuming it is so yields a
contradiction. As a matter of fact, it is in fact proof that time
dilation did not occur, and that it is meaningless to assume the muon
would disintegrate differently in different inertial frames. Yes,
different observers would note different half-lives, but the muon would
always have the same intrinsic half-life.

Of course, the fact that time dilation did not occur is not proof it
does not occur. However, how does one prove that an imaginary concept
does not exist? How can one prove that there are no unicorns? One
cannot. One might choose to wait for a positive proof of an actual
unicorn, but what about the negative proof? The counterproof must rely
on logic. That is what I have done in the David Arguments above. It
proves that real time dilation, and its sibling length contraction, are
illogical premises, and are to be applied only as computational tools.




--
Strich 9
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