There have been lingering doubts about Einstein’s theories. Witness the peer-reviewed journal devoted to criticizing Einsteinian and Maxwellian ideas: Galilean Electrodynamics.

Introduction

It is difficult to find critical work about Einstein’s Theory of Relativity in most standard physics journals. Galilean Electrodynamics, founded by the late Petr Beckman in 1989, is a notable exception. Since Einstein’s 1905 paper, Relativity has had many critics and although it is widely accepted today, there is still a minority who question the central tenets of Relativity Theory. Galilean Electrodynamics is devoted to publishing high quality scientific papers, refereed by professional scientists, that are critical of Special Relativity, General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Big Bang theory and other establishment doctrines.

I had the privilege of meeting Robert Fritzius in person. See: “Death Star” Physics Conference, Easter Sunday 2008. Robert Fritzius introduced me to the work of Walter Ritz and gave me a copy of a back-handed critique of Einstein’s and Maxwell’s work by JG Fox (listed below).

[photo of Walter Ritz]

Einstein’s theory was deeply rooted in the work of a creationist by the name of James Clerk Maxwell. If Einstein and Maxwell

(perhaps among the top 10 scientists for all time), are proven wrong, they can’t be wrong by much, because experimental evidence is strongly in agreement with their theories. Where they could be wrong would be in contexts which our experiments and technology (like radios, GPS, and atomic bombs) do not have easy access to at this time. Thus, like Newtonian mechanics, even if they are wrong, their work will persist because it serves as a useful approximation. Even to this day, Newtonian mechanics is a staple for physicists and engineers, even though we accept Netwonian mechanics is an approximation. They will remain pillars of science even if their theories are shown to be only approximations….

That said, there have been lingering doubts if the major tenets of Einstein’s theory are absolutely correct. This would be rooted in the question of whether Maxwell’s equations are absolutely correct. Maxwell’s equations are the basis of Einstien’s theory. See: Lorentz Covariance and the Creationist Maxwell’s Equations.

To that end, JG Fox wrote a supposed rebuttal to Maxwell and Einstein’s greatest rival, Walter Ritz. Ritz died and untimely death at the age of 31 before he completed his critique of Maxwell and Einstein. Ritz is still quoted in physics books for his other contributions, and was a student of Poincare, as was Lorentz. Lorentz provided fundamental contributions to relativity theory. In fact, Einstein’s special relativity is taught using “Lorentz” transformations, not “Einstein” transformations…..I mention all this to point out, Ritz is by no means a crank. Einstein had great respect for Ritz, and some of their exchanges are in the public record.

I have two papers by Fox: Experimental Evidence for the Second Postulate of Relativity and Evidence Against Emission Theories.

The topics invovled were

1. The Ritz Theory
2. Modification of the Ritz hypothesis for Scattered Radiation
3. Dispersion Theory and The Extinction Theorem
4. Aberration
5. First-Order Doppler
6. Binary Stars
7. Photon Model and Inertia of Energy
8. convection of Light by Moving Media
9. Second-Order Doppler Effect
10. Variation of Mass with Velocity
11. E= mc^2
12. time Dilation oin Fast Meson Lifetimes
13. High-Energy Kinematics
14. Moving Sources

I mentioned a suggested modification of Einstein’s theory by a top notch physicist here: Bremsstrahlung radiation, VSL, dark matter, plasma cosmology

So what is the point of this thread? It is just a dump of references and resources for serious students of the topic…..

PS
JG Fox is not to be mistaken for Alan Fox, the internet Darwinazi.