Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS March Meeting 2023
Volume 68, Number 3
Las Vegas, Nevada (March 5-10)
Virtual (March 20-22); Time Zone: Pacific Time
Session Z57: General Physics
11:30 AM–1:18 PM,
Friday, March 10, 2023
Room: Room 303
Sponsoring
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Abstract: Z57.00004 : A Newtonian Alternative To Special Relativity
12:06 PM–12:18 PM
Presenter:
Eric A Samuel
(George Mason University)
Author:
Eric A Samuel
(George Mason University)
Further, we present compelling Newtonian interpretations for experiments believed to support SR. Rossi’s high-altitude experiments reveal µ-meson flight speeds of up to 20 c, and contradict SR’s universal speed limit concept. The speed-limited E-field and spiral H-field trajectories of electrons are explained by augmenting the Lorentz force with a radiation damping force. (with α being phenomological proportinality constant)
F = [eE + e v x B] - [e/c) (v·E ) E /|E | + e α (B x v x B)/|B | ]
In the above model, an electron in an E-field reaches a terminal velocity of c when its Lorentz motive and radiation damping forces are equally opposed. The spiral trajectories of charged particles in H-fields are due to the progressive radiation dampening of their tangential velocities while their Lawrence cyclotron frequencies remain constant. The remarkable experiments of Ives and Stillwell, and of Kundig are re-interpreted as being due to impulsive momentum transfer to photons emitted from accelerating molecules or nuclei. The Compton effect, too, is classically formulated and compared with experiment.
Consequently, Newton’s laws alone are sufficient to fully explain the experimental data that are now believed to support SR.
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