Beyond the World of Relativity to the World of Invariance
A Journey of Discovery into the Realm of Absolute Space and Time
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In the late nineteenth century, Scottish scientist James Clerk Maxwell proposed a successful theory in physics, the theory of electromagnetism. His theory implied that the speed of light is constant in free space. This constancy became a great puzzle in science. And in late 1905, scientist Albert Einstein introduced the special theory of relativity as an explanation for the puzzle.
However, Einstein’s famous equation E = mc2 was not a direct consequence of his theory. In the present, relativists have to combine relativistic space-time and Newtonian mechanics by using a link called Lorentz factor to derive the mass-energy equivalence. Because the natural world cannot be both relativistic and absolute, Einstein’s mass-energy equivalence violates the uniqueness of the reality. This problem ought to be solved.
Disagreeing with the mainstream viewpoint that states space-time can be influenced by materials, the author proposes another definition of the speed of light. This new definition allows the speed remains constant in free space without changing the structure of space and time to become relativistic.
From the perspective of absolute space and time, he successfully derives a series of equations describing relations among mass, momentum, and energy; relations among force, velocity, and acceleration; the effect of gravitation on light; and remarkably the famous equations E = mc2 and E2 = p2c2 + m2c4. All these equations are deprived only from absolute space and time. They not only respect the uniqueness of the reality but also describe the natural world simply and genuinely.
Thus, this book, Beyond the World of Relativity to the World of Invariance, opens a new direction in the progression of discovering nature appropriately and interestingly.
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James Clerk Maxwell turned the scientific world upside down in the late nineteenth century with his theory of electromagnetism, which predicted that an electromagnetic wave would propagate in vacuum with a constant speed.
His prediction was at odds with classical mechanics, and some scientists devised new ideas to reconcile the discrepancy. One of them was Albert Einstein, who proposed the theory of relativity in the early twentieth century, which became a pillar of science.
The equation E = mc2 sparked a revolution of perspective—resulting in the perspective of absolute time and space that had prevailed in Newtonian mechanics being displaced by the perspective of relativistic space-time in Einstein’s theory.
Thanh Giang Nguyen, however, realized while studying the theory of relativity that fundamental concepts in Newtonian mechanics can also be used to show E = mc2, as outlined in this book.
Join the author on an incredible journey into a distinct world that is defined by absolute space and time when you go Beyond the World of Relativity to the World of Invariance.
About the Author
About the Author Space and time are simply natural concepts. They are non-materials. They do not belong to the world of materials and, therefore, they cannot be affected by materials. —Thanh G. Nguyen
Thanh Nguyen disagrees with the mainstream perspective of relativistic space-time. Based on years of study and his own original work, he believes that time cannot be dilated and space cannot be curved by matter.
One could say that the author’s distinct view on the invariability of space and time has been shaped by his many experiences with survival and death. Born in the Republic of Vietnam to a Bien-Hoa City police officer and a housewife, Nguyen witnessed the horrific consequences of the Vietnam War as a child.
In 1985, ten years after the fall of Saigon, Nguyen and thirty-eight others escaped communist Vietnam as refugees on a leaky, worn, five-by-twenty-foot wooden boat. This freedom came at a high price. For many stormy days and nights among dreadful waves and violent winds, these exhausted people wandered powerlessly and hopelessly into the vast Pacific Ocean and awaited what seemed to be inevitable and imminent death.
Nguyen still remembers vividly that when he and the others were drifting on the sea, the stormy nights were so dark that it was entirely black. The fierce gusty winds shrieked around, and the formidable angry waves towered over them. The suffering boat was wobbly escalating and then plunging nonstop in the relentless, roaring water. Attentively listening to miserable voices released from despondent people who were faintly groaning, crying and praying in despair, he sadly wondered from the bottom of his heart: What is the destiny of these people? Why is human life so frail? Why do we all have to die here, amid this immense ocean, buried under thousands of cold, huge waves?
After seven days and nights of struggling for survival, the refugees were finally rescued by a humanitarian Greek captain and his team of sailors on a British commercial ship. They landed in Pusan City, Republic of Korea.
In 1987, Nguyen resettled in the United States. Once his new life became stable, he tried to find the answers to his questions in Buddhism, and he recognized and accepted the Buddhist beliefs of space and time are absolute.
In 1997, he enrolled at Worcester State College in Massachusetts, where he was introduced to the theory of relativity. He learned that most scientists support Albert Einstein’s theory. Although Nguyen could accept the famous equation E = mc2, he could not agree that space and time can be influenced because they are non-materials.
Continuing his studies independently, he developed his own way to derive the famous equation from his perspective of invariant space and time, which he has laid out scientifically in this book.
Nguyen’s genuine views of human beings, society, the world and the universe have evolved in his heart and mind throughout his life. It is these views on life that have inspired his work.
Thanh Nguyen lives in Massachusetts with his wife and three children.