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I. Introduction

The special theory of relativity has immediate logical problems, when it is applied to predict the result of experiments.

Except if we admit philosophically that the world might be not logical, the logical problems are enough to condamn the theory.

The most beautiful one is the following:

Einstein needs to make a phone call with privacy to his friend Michele Besso .

There is phone booth of [1m]x[1.3m]x[2m], but unfortunately Einstein is very fat with a diameter of 1.2 m (at the waist). Thus he may not enter entirely inside in order to close the door for complete privacy.

Mileva his wife has a good idea: If Einstein is accelerated up to the velocity of 297,000 km/s, he will be contracted down to 17 cm and thus it becomes possible to close and even lock the door with Einstein alive inside the booth. In fact, he will be still alive during [100 cm-17cm] / [297,000 km/s] =2.79 ns for the phone call.

Einstein is very proud of his wife and enthusiast to perform the experiment.

But to avoid the problem to catch the phone at this velocity, he uses a cell phone that he takes with him.

He is now at the velocity of 297,000 km/s and when Mileva see him inside the booth, she closes and locks the door and ask him with an other cell phone: " Have you privacy ? "

If Einstein is still alive, in order to answer he needs to perform a rapid relativistic calculation: " The booth of [1m] at 297,000 km/s is contracted down to 14.1 cm and thus my diameter of 1.2m will never enter inside. More, as my brain is at 60 cm between my ends, it will be destroyed on the back wall with still

[60cm-14.1cm]=45.9cm of my body outside the booth. Conclusion, my answer to Mileva is that I will never have privacy for the phone call, never !, never ! ".

Mileva don't understand what happens (logical problem):

1) If Einstein doesn't answer, he must have a mental desease or he is already dead.

If he has the mental desease, the experiment may be performed with somobody else with a good health and thus he is already dead. But this is not true, because Mileva see him inside the booth and alive. SR is thus wrong.

2) If he answer that he will never have privacy, he has a mental desease (excluded as above) or SR is wrong.

Remark: obviously with a cell phone the E.M. waves need a time delay to reach Einstein. Such a problem is solved if Mileva asks the question a short time before to see him in the booth closed. The same way, the door must be closed with an automatic timer system. Exact predictions for the whole experiment is possible, especially for the time when the question of Mileva reach Einstein by radio-waves, or when the door must be closed and locked.

II. Time dilation as a classical effect.

If the special theory of relativity is already proved wrong with internal logical problems, we have to explain with an other theory the results of the experiments which were considered in agreement with the formulas of SR.

To find such a theory has been possible, and incredibly this theory is so closed to SR, that the understanding of the origin of its paradoxes has been possible. Obviously the theory needs an ether in which the motion is absolute (non-relativistic)

The first good thing I thought is the following: " If time dilation is velocity dependant, may be the classical Doppler effect is responsible of it ! "

Thus ,one day, I have decided to perform a strange classical calculation, just to see what happens. I use a resonator made of two mirrors, on which waves (like sound-waves) in the ether reflect. But the hypothesis I use, is that the ether is not carring along by the mirrors in absolute motion.

Several incredible and disturbing results have been obtained:

1) The frequency inside the resonator and in the frame in motion decreases according to the formula F'=F.(1-bb) with b= v/c where v is the velocity of the mirrors, c the sound-wave velocity, F the frequency at rest and F' the frequency in motion.

It is a time dilation !

2) If we contract the resonator according to the classical Fitgerald and Lorentz hypothesis (1892): L'=L.sqrt(1-bb), the time dilation in the resonator becomes:

F'=F.sqrt(1-bb), the well-known one in relativity (but a false theory )

3) If, in the rest frame, we add the sound-wave equations of the wave from mirror1 to mirror 2 and from mirror 2 to mirror 1 which compose the standing wave, the standing wave equation is: sin{2.pi.F.[(t-vx/cc)/sqrt(1-bb)]}xcos{2.pi.F.[(x-vt)/sqrt(1-bb)]}, in which we see the Lorentz's transformations.

4) If we chose the frequency F of the resonator at rest very high like in the formula

hF=mcc where h is the Planck's constant and m the mass of the electron, the first factor sin{...} in the formula above is the de Broglie wave of the electron with a wavelength of [h/mv]sqrt(1-bb) which contracts a bit more quickly according to the Lorentz' contraction factor sqrt(1-bb).

5) If we consider the factor cos{...}, we see that it is a new unknown wave, with a wavelength [h/mc].sqrt(1-bb) which contracts the same way as the de Broglie's .

But, If we calculate the ratio of the de Broglie's wavelength to the new one (De Witte's wavelength), we obtain [c/v] which incredibly has the value of 137.036 on the first orbit of the Bohr's atom.

6) The frequency of the de Broglie wave sin{...} increases with the velocity, the same way as the mass of the electron in relativity: [1/sqrt(1-bb)]

Thus, with such results, we have good reasons to believe that the electron has a wave structure very related to the wave behavior of the sound-waves between two mirrors (standing wave).

III. Transversal clock.

Instead of to use a resonator where the travelling waves propagates in the motion direction, a calculation with a transversal resonator yields the same results: time dilation law, de Broglie wave, de Broglie wave frrequency increase with velocity, length contraction.

But there is an interesting difference, the Lorentz' contraction hypothesis doesn't need to be used.

The energy of the waves in the resonator may be calculated using the energy density of scalar sound-waves in a gas and yields exactly the velocity dependance of the energy of the electron in relativity (but here, an absolute velocity).

At these level, we have good reasons to believe that the electron is made of scalar sound-waves in a gas. But as the frequency of these waves is very high, I have called them: hypersound-waves or may be better in English hypersonic waves.

I have to say that if hypersonic waves are able to propagate into a liquid or a solid medium, the choice of a gas has been dictated by the needs to account of the red-shift of far galaxies (Doppler effect on temporary frosen zones of ether), the Olbers paradox (the ether is a black body at 2.7°K and thus the E.M. energy density is limited to the microwave background) and the gravitational field (non linear behavior of ether gas under strong hypersonic energy density with a decrease of the light speed).

IV. Spinless electron wave structure.

Now, I have been led to search a standing wave structure for the electron which would meet the following requirements: de Broglie wave, DE WITTE's wave, time dilation in the moving frame, length contraction, energy increase with velocity, something like reflection between mirrors (not plane) and the travelling waves solutions of the scalar sound-wave equation.

This result has been obtained with a great simplicity and has convince me to be on the right track to discover the intimate fonctionning of a particule like the electron.

A simple animation program for the spinless electron wave structure may be obtained free of any charge, if you ask it at my electronic address: roland.dewitte@pi.be

V. Other consequences of the structure.

With the wave structure, It has also been possible to justify the existence of a nucleus of frozen ether, to demonstrate directly the Maxwell equations, to give a mechanism for the electromagnetic field, to derive the energy E=mcc (in the rest frame only) and to calculate the Plank's constant.

All these results which are nearly incredible will be soon on the web-site.

VI. New space-time theory.

There, I asked myself if the length contraction and the time dilation in the rest frame only were enough to account of the experiments considered erroneously in favour of SR (known logically impossible).

The answer was: yes !

With these hypothesis (demonstrated for the electron) and generalized for any length and the cesium clocks a very simple new space-time theory is derived.

An interesting result obtained with the theory is that, if the one-way speed of light is c (isotropic) in the rest frame, the round-trip speed of light is also isotropically c in any moving frame, but the one-way speed is not isotropic.

The first experiment considered successfully was obviously the Michelson-Morley experiment

An other experiment is the apparent constancy of the one-way speed of light even if it is known from the theory that it is not isotropic.

The same phenomenon is also considered for the GPS satellite clocks synchronization where the apparent constancy of the speed of light is well-explained with the new absolute space-time theory.

In fact whatever the experiment related to relativity, a clear derivation of the result obtained is possible with the present logical theory: Fizeau, Hoek, T.S. Jaseja et al., Brillet et al., Kennedy-Thorndike, Krisher et al., etc... Several of the most well-known of these experiments will be soon considered on this web-site.

VII. Understanding the origin of the paradoxes of SR.

Finally one interesting result of the theory is a clear understanding of the origin of the paradoxes of SR.

As the new transformations are changed into the Lorentz 'transformations when the synchronization method of Einstein is applied, together with a synchronization error in the moving frames: t'(x')=t'(o')-vx'/cc and because a change of the settings of the clocks changes the physical measurements (length, velocity, time dilation, etc..), we know that we compare different things (like appels and pears) in different frames.

Such a modification of the velocity measured or of a length is already given here.

And all this means that the Einteinian frames are not equivalent to study the nature and thus the principle of relativity is not valid. Einstein is wrong, the illogical SR theory useless, which is replaced advantageously by an absolute and logical ether theory.

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