Einstein's Starting Assumptions Are Wrong

Overview

Einstein’s Theory of Relativity is wrong. This is becoming easier and easier for me to demonstrate. There are so many flaws – in his starting assumptions and in his logic – the we can discredit the Theory of Relativity very easily.

One of his main wrong assumptions is about the nature of light. He also totally misunderstands the meaning of “constant speed”. These are major errors. These are errors in what he considers to be facts (which are completely false). Therefore everything based on those wrong “facts” will automatically be incorrect.

Einstein further adds to this starting error by overlooking a major flaw in logic. There is one major claim in particular he makes which is absolutely impossible.

Therefore in this article we will look at some of the major starting assumptions Einstein makes in his Theories of Relativity. We will see how these starting assumptions are completely wrong, which then undermines his entire theory.

What "Constant Speed of Light" Really Means

In the real, physical arena of electromagnetic energy, this is what the speed of light really means:

1. A photon, once emitted, never increases its speed or decreases its speed.

2. Every frequency of electromagnetic energy will travel forward at the exact same speed.

These are the two facts – the true facts – behind the statement “constant speed of light”.

You will also notice that there are two uses of the phrase “constant speed”. One phrase refers to the traveling of one photon – that it neither speeds up nor slows down. The other phrase refers to the fact that any emitted photon will travel at one particular speed value.

These are two different concepts regarding “constant speed”, and they sometimes get confused. In fact, Einstein later confuses them when he tries to use Red Shift of moving stars as part of his Theory. (The Red Shift would be moving “source”, not a moving “observer”).

For most of this article we will focus on the meaning of “constant speed” being that a photon, once emitted, never speeds up or slows down.

[In other articles I will discuss photons of any frequency emitted at the same speed, as well as articles discussing the true causes of Red Shift].

Misleading Concept of "Constant Speed for Any Observer"

The term “constant speed of light” does NOT NECESSARILY MEAN that this speed is the same for “any observer”. Einstein added that phrase, without any basis in fact. He also claimed that Maxwell said this, but he did not. Maxwell’s equations showed a constant speed, but he never included the addition “for any observer”.

This is one of the major starting flaws in Einstein’s Theory. The true fact of “constant speed of light” is not necessarily the same as the false statement “constant speed of light…for any moving observer.”

Einstein based his entire Theory on explaining this “fact”. Yet this fact is not true, and there is no evidence to support that it is true. Therefore, the entire concept of “constant speed of light…for any moving observer” is erroneous. Consequently, there is no basis for any theory which attempts to explain something that does not really exist.

Thus, the entire Theory of Relativity falls apart.

Stationary Observer versus Moving Observer

One of the confusing statements which must be clarified is the phrase “constant speed for any observer”. This phrase is repeated often – extremely often – including by Einstein himself in his articles.

Yet there is an important phrase which is missing, the word “moving”. Thus the phrase should be “constant speed for any moving observer.” This phrase is important because Einstein does not care about stationary observers, only observers who are in motion.

Differences Between Stationary and Moving Observers

You will notice that there is a difference between stationary observers and observers in motion. For stationary observers, the speed of light is indeed constant. As stated above, the photon never speeds up or slows down in front of a stationary observer. Also, just as we stated above, a photon of any frequency, emitted in front of a stationary observer, will travel at the same speed. Thus, in front of a stationary observer, the speed of a photon is constant, in both sense of the term.

However, the situation with the moving observer is different. Here we have an observer who is traveling alongside the photon. This is what the phrase “observer in motion” implies.  

The photon does not travel at constant speed – at least not in the way Einstein thinks it does. In practical terms, yes, the photon does still travel at a constant speed. That never changes. But Einstein is talking about something else: He is talking about relative motion between the observer and photon, in which case he thinks the photon both speeds up and is constant at the same time. Sound confusing and illogical? Yes it is. This another one of Einstein’s major flaws in his starting assumptions. We will expand on this below.

Relative Speed to Moving Observer: The TRUE Science

The “speed of light” must be discussed here in terms of Einstein’s meaning – and this where we really get into flawed logic.

I will explain what he is trying to say…and much simpler than he ever did. First we will explain the basic concept of observer in motion, and the “apparent” speed. I like to use the analogy of two cars on the highway.

We start with a car going 70 mph. How did we measure this speed? Because a guy sitting on the side of the road (a “stationary observer”) was measuring the speed as the car went by.

We then at a second car, this one going 50 mph. Again, we measured this speed based on a “stationary observer” sitting on the side of the road.

So far this is simple. Now suppose that we are in car number 2. We are in the car driving 50 mph (according to the guy on the side). Then suppose car number 1 is what we wish to observe. In this case WE are the observers…and we are observers in motion.

We are driving in our car, at “50 mph”. We look to the left, at the car going “70 mph”. However, we do not see a car traveling “70 mph”. We only see a difference of “20 mph”. Thus, compared to a moving observer, the measured speed will simply be the difference in the two speeds.

Of course in the real world we are used to such things, and we quickly estimate that the car is moving at “70 mph”. We don’t usually think of it as “20 mph difference”. Yet in terms of “relative motions”, that is what the physicists are talking about.

Flawed Logic in the "Relative Speed" of Light

Now that we understand the basic concept of “moving observer” we can discuss Einstein’s amazingly flawed logic and rejection of reality.

In basic terms, Einstein is stating (as fact, though it is false), that “the speed of light is constant for all [moving] observers”. More specifically, he means that the speed of light seems to be the exact same value for all observers no matter how fast the observers themselves are going. This is a physical impossibility.

Replace car 1 with a photon. This photon is going at the speed of light. Car 2 will have the observers. The car will travel at various speeds, and in some cases close to the speed of light. This car 2 will then measure the “speed” of the photon. Thus, what is happening is the observers in car 2 will be measuring the speed of the photon, while at the same time the observation car itself is changing speeds. This is the basic situation that Einstein is trying to set up for us.

What happens next? There is reality, and then there is Einstein’s deviation from reality.

In some ways, trying to explain flawed logic is more difficult than explaining clear logic. Just try to follow along, and you should see Einstein’s major errors.

In reality what will happen is that the same thing will occur with the photon and our observation car that occurred with our two cars earlier.

First, in reality the photon will travel at a constant speed. This photon never speeds up, it never slows down. (Einstein believes that the photon does change speeds). This is just like our car 1 heading 70 mph, setting on cruise control. That car just travels down the freeway at constant speed. In the same way, our photon travels as fast as it does, without ever changing speeds. Regardless of the value you measure, the basic speed of the photon never changes.

Then we have our observation car. At the moment, the observation car travels at a constant speed. Thus, both the photon and our car travel at a constant speed. At this time, the photon will indeed appear to be at constant speed. Because it is.

However the “measured speed” of the photon will be the difference between the actual speed and our speed. This is exactly the same as our car example of 70 mph – 50 mph = 20 mph. But again, this is the “apparent” speed. It is not the full speed, the true speed, as related to the stationary observer on the side of the road. This is only an apparent speed, which is the difference between the actual speed of the photon and the observation car.

This is the reality. This is what really happens.

However, what Einstein says - and remember that this is as starting assumptions, not even the development of his theory - is that difference between the observation car and the photon would still be….the “constant speed of light” (186,000 miles per second).

In other words, this implies that the photon is speeding up, at the same rate in which the observer is speeding up…so that the “difference” in speeds is always the same.

This concept of Einstein’s is flawed for two major reasons:

1. The photon itself never speeds up.
The photon never, ever changes its internal speed. This is in fact one of the main principles of “constant speed of light” in the true meaning. And on a physical level, the energy of the photon never changes, and therefore the speed of the photon never changes.

2. It would be impossible to accommodate this for all moving observers.
Even if the photon itself did speed up – just to accommodate this one moving observer – and to always appear to travel at exactly 186,000 miles per second to that particular moving observer, this could not work for every moving observer.

Think of all the moving observers which are nearby. The photon cannot possibly speed up and slow down in all ways at the same time such that all nearby moving observers would see the photon at exactly the same relative speed. This would be impossible.

Just think of the cars on the road, with all the cars traveling at different speeds, and our car #1, whose speed that everyone is measuring as they travel nearby. The car #1 could increase its speed – so that it appears “70 mph” to a car going 30 mph. Thus in reality the car #1 is going 100 mph. In other words, the car #1 would be traveling at a real speed of 100 mph, just so that its apparent speed, to a car traveling 30 mph, would appear to be 70 mph. We could possibly concede this point - but for only one observer.
Yet to the observation car going 60 mph, the car #1 now has an apparent speed of 40 mph, not 70 mph. So you see, it is impossible, even the car #1 speeds up to accommodate one observation car, for our car #1 to appear the same speed to every single car on the road. This just isn’t possible.

Therefore, it is physically impossible for a photon to appear to travel at the same constant speed, for all moving observers, at the same time.

This is not only physically impossible, it has never been observed. And yet Einstein uses this as “fact”. Einstein bases his whole theory of relativity in trying to explain a phenomenon which doesn’t exist, can’t exist, and has never been observed.
Therefore the entire theory is flawed.

Einstein: Time Changes for Each Observer

At some level Einstein knew that what we discussed above is a physical impossibility. And yet he also believed it must be true. This is how Einstein came up with using "time" as something that can change.
Basically he said that "time" is something like liquid or gasses, something which can stretch or compress, something which can move forward or backward. Then he says that that "time" itself compresses or stretches, for each observer. This would change the "speed" of objects without changing their internal energies. (This is a very basic, slimmed down version of what he said, but those are the main elements).

Yet this too is flawed. First we must remember that there is no proof, no phenomena, where the apparent speeds for all observers in motion occur the way he says. Thus no theory is needed to explain something that doesn't exist.

Second, even when we set aside the truth, the idea of time stretching for each observer is odd. It would mean that "1 second" on Earth is not the same as "1 second" on Mars.

You can say that an object itself speeds up or slows down. You can say that one person is able to receive and process information faster than another. Yet you will still clock those motions and events in terms of the units of time as we have defined them. In other words, whenever there are events which seem to occur faster or slower, there are other processes which occur at those different speeds, it is not time itself which is shifting. 

Devotion to the Ether Leads to Odd Theories of Motion

If this basic assumption is so wrong, then where did Einstein get it? He got it from what I call his “religious devotion” to the ether concept.

Despite being a scientist, Einstein sometimes went into areas which were more of a religious nature, and by that I mean being devoted to a concept even though it has been disproven.

Einstein will say in some of his articles (and even then only briefly) that the work of Michelson shows that light will travel at a constant speed for any observer. Okay, well what did Michelson do? Michelson tried to prove the existence of the ether…except that he couldn’t prove that it existed.

Some people, like myself, would say that if the experiments are good, and you still can’t find the evidence, then perhaps there is no ether. Yet Einstein and others went the opposite route: there must be ether, we just can’t detect it.

Pause here to notice that this is an assumption…that ether exists, despite any experiments which can’t find it. Therefore, from this “belief”, some scientists came up with an alternate explanation. This explanation is complex, convoluted, and defies reality in many ways. Part of that “explanation” for why we couldn’t detect ether had to do with the relative speeds of objects…behaving in complex and illogical ways as Einstein tried to have us believe.

The "Two Headed Frog" of "Constant for Any Observer"

I like to compare this to a “two headed frog”. Imagine some biologists going out into nature, convinced that two headed frogs are common. Not only that, they must be everywhere. But, though the biologists look and look and look, they cannot find any two headed frogs.

Some scientists would say “that must mean two headed frogs don’t exist.” Yet these biologists believe these frogs must exist – yet without having actually seen one themselves.

So they come up with an explanation: “All frogs are in fact two headed frogs. They just appear as a frog with one head, because of the way they move. They move their heads so fast, relative to our eyes, that the two headed frog appears to have one head. Aha! Thus, not only do two headed frogs exist, but in fact all frogs we see actually have two heads! It is simply their head motion, relative to our eyes, that makes them appear to have only one head.” This is the type of rationale the physicists like Einstein and Lorentz used in explaining the existence of the ether.

As for me, I don’t believe that all frogs are two headed frogs, and I don’t believe that space is filled with ether. There is no proof. Similarly, I don’t believe that any one headed frog we see is simply a two headed frog that moves his heads in a particular way (making it appear as one head), nor do I believe that photons move in particular ways just to appear the same speed to all observers, at the same time, regardless of their speed.

Review and Conclusion

The more I read of Einstein’s works and the background history the easier it is for me to discredit the entire Theory of Relativity.

One of the easiest ways to discredit the Theory of Relativity is to go to Einstein’s assumptions. We are not talking about his “explanations” or his ideas of how space operates. We are talking about the basic “facts” which are very much untrue, and yet he uses these false facts to build his case.

Yet, because the starting facts are untrue, then there is no need to explain a set of phenomena that doesn’t actually exist. The theory is based on nothing, and the whole theory falls apart.

The main wrong facts are based on his misunderstanding of the “constant speed of light”; and the wrong insertion of the concept “for any moving observer”.

The true facts regarding the photon are:

1. Every frequency of photon will be emitted, and travel, at the same constant speed.

2. The internal energy of a photon is constant. Energy is never added, energy never leaves.

3. Because the internal energy of the photon never changes, the speed of the photon never changes. The photon, once it is emitted, will never speed up or slow down.

4. The speed of the photon can be considered almost universal because we can reference the speed of photons to fixed stars. (Although the stars to move, from our distance, the stars move very little, and are essentially a constant backdrop).

5. When an object moves parallel to a photon, the photon will still be observed to move at a constant speed. That is, the photon will neither speed up nor slow down).

6. When an object moves parallel to a photon, the “apparent” speed may be slightly less, being the difference between the speed of the photon and the speed of the observer. However, the photon travels so much faster than any other object that the difference in value is minimal.

 

The flaws in Einstein’s understanding and logic of the basic facts about light include the following:

1. Einstein misunderstands the physical meaning behind “constant speed of light”.

2. Einstein adds the erroneous concept of “relative to any moving observer”.

3. There is no evidence which supports the false fact that photons can appear to travel at the same speed for any observer.

4. Einstein believes that the photon can change speeds, when in fact the photon never speeds up.

5. Einstein believes that the photon can appear to be the same speed to all moving observers, even when these observers are moving at various speeds. This is a physical impossibility.

6. Einstein confuses the concepts of constant internal energy and inherent speed, with the variations involved in measuring a speed relative to other objects.

7. Einstein also confuses the constant speed for photons emitted from a source in motion, with the (false idea) of constant speed of photons as seen by observers in motion.

 

These are just some of the starting points for Einstein. They are the assumptions, the concepts he takes as facts. Yet because he starts with wrong facts, then the theory has no foundation. And because he begins with multiple wrong facts, the theory is that much more flawed.

Remember that when the facts you are trying to explain are not a real facts, then you are really attempting to explain a set of phenomena which does not exist. Therefore, these numerous wrong assumptions, compounded with flaws in logic, do indeed undermine the entire Theory of Relativity.

MF

8/25/2014