Physical Interpretations of Relativity Theory – VIII
6-9 September 2002, Imperial College, London
ABSTRACTS & TEXTS
The following list gives the names and addresses of those who have submitted papers to the Organizing Committee of the 8th Physical Interpretations of Relativity Theory meeting, and whose paper has been provisionally accepted for inclusion in the programme of lectures. The title of the paper is listed against the author. In cases where an abstract or text has been provided in electronic form, the document has been sent for posting on the PIRT web site.
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or
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The third address is the most convenient to use.
In the cases where a full text is not available, the abstract has been
posted. Some authors have not provided an electronic text for posting.
These papers will be posted when an electronic version is supplied.
Copies of all papers accepted for the programme will be included in the
volume of conference papers.
It is likely that several of the authors listed below will not be able
to attend the London meeting because of severe economic problems in
their countries which may prevent them receiving the financial aid to
travel to London and to meet other expenses. In this case, the papers
will be included in a volume of Late Papers issued after the meeting.
The following list is as compiled on 20th August 2002.
ARMINJON, M. arminjon@hmg.inpg.fr
TESTING
A THEORY OF GRAVITY IN CELESTIAL MECHANICS: A NEW METHOD AND ITS FIRST
RESULTS FOR A SCALAR THEORY
BORNEAS, M. (Deceased), Catedra de Fizics, Universitatea
"Politehnica", Timisoara, Romania.
WAVES
AND PARTICLES OF LIGHT (Published posthumously).
NEW
ASPECTS OF GLOBAL INTEGRATION THEORY.
BROEKAERT, J., jbroekae@vub.ac.be
VERIFICATION
OF THE ‘ESSENTIAL’ GRT EXPERIMENTS IN A SCALAR LORENTZ-COVARIANT
GRAVITATION THEORY.
CARROLL, J.E. jec@eng.cam.ac.uk
RELATIVITY
WITH THREE DIMENSIONS OF TIME: SPACE-TIME VORTICES.
CAVALLERI, G., g.cavalleri@dmf.bs.unicatt.it
, TONNI, E., CESARONI, E., BOSI, L., and SPAVIERI, G. spavieri@ciens.ula.ve
THE
SPIN MOTION IS THE ORIGIN OF SPECIAL RELATIVITY AND LEADS TO BOHR’S
QUANTIZATION RULES AND PLANCK’S BLACK BODY SPECTRUM & ( with
ZELADA, M.) ZITTERBEWEGUNG
LEADS TO THE EXPLANATION OF A RECENT EXPERIMENT ON NEUTRINOS NOT
EXPLAINABLE BY MEANS OF CHROMODYNAMICS &
CORRECT
INTERPRETATION OF THE GRANEAU-PHIPPS Jr.-ROSCOE EXPERIMENT IN
ELECTRODYNAMICS & RELATIVISTIC
EXACT EXPRESSIONS FOR WAVE REFRACTION IN A GENERALLY MOVING MEDIUM:
APPLICATION TO THE GRAVITATIONAL LENS EFFECT.
CEAPA, A.C.V. alex_ceapa@yahoo.com
ASPECTS OF RELATIVITY THEORY( Measurement
of Absolute Velocities by Inertial Observers;
Co-ordinate
System at Absolute Rest in Einstein’s Special Relativity Theory;
Meaning
of the Relativistic Law for the Composition of Parallel Velocities;
Reconsidering
Einstein’s 1905 Derivation of the Lorentz Transformation;
Group
Properties of the Lorentz Transformations.)
CHERVON, S. G. chervon@sv.uven.ru chervon@mail.uln.ru
BIRTH
AND GLOBAL EVOLUTION OF THE UNIVERSE:THEORY OR REALITY?
DIAZ-CASTRO, J jdiaz_castro@hotmail.com
cat21@rocketmail.com
On
Obtaining a Quantum-Mechanical Time Operator
FORSTER, A forster@univ-tln.fr
SELF
ROTATIONAL MOTION OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES OF PARTIALLY COHERENT CHARGED
MATTER IN UNIFIED FIELD THEORY.
GALECZKI, G nc-galeczge@netcologne.de
PHYSICS
AND THE TRUE CONTINUUM.
GARNIER-MALET, J-P jpgarma@free.fr
& BOBOLA, P.
THE
RELATIVISTIC CORRECTION ACCORDING TO THE DOUBLING THEORY.
GIESE, A. cc@a-giese.de
A
PARICLE MODEL EXPLAINS SPECIAL RELATIVITY AND QUANTUM MECHANICAL
PROCESSES IN A CLASSICAL WAY.
GILSON, J. G. j.g.gilson@qmul.ac.uk
STRONG
QUANTUM COUPLING AND RELATIVITY.
GLADYSHEV, V. O. vgladyshev@mail.ru
, & MOROZOV, A amor@physic.bmstu.ru
V.
ON
THE INFLUENCE OF SPACE-TIME CURVATURE FLUCTUATIONS ON LIGHT PROPAGATION
IN THE UNIVERSE.
GLADYSHEV, V. O. vgladyshev@mail.ru
, GLADYSHEVA, T.M., & ZUBAREV, V.E.
THE
FIRST RESULTS OF THE EXPERIMENT ON REGISTERING LIGHT DRAGGING OBSERVED
IN AN INTERFEROMETER WITH ROTATING MEDIUM.
GRUYITCH, L. T. lyubomir.gruyitch@utbm.fr
COMPATIBILITY
AND UNIFORMITY IN THE RELATIVITY THEORY: PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS.
GUY, B guy@emse.fr
THE
LINK BETWEEN THE TIME AND SPACE CONCEPTS AND THE MEANING OF THE THEORY
OF RELATIVITY.
HAJRA, S sankarhajra@yahoo.com
LARGE
CHARGE ELECTRODYNAMICS AND SPECIAL RELATIVITY
HOLMBERG, E. R. R. eholmberg@ukonline.co.uk
COSMOMETRY:
A NEW PARADIGM FOR RELATIVITY AND COSMOLOGY
KATANAEV, M. O. katanaev@mi.ras.ru
GLOBAL SOLUTIONS IN GRAVITY
KESWANI, G.H. keswani@somaiya.com
REFLECTIONS ON RELATIVITY: (1) INTIMATIONS
OF RELATIVITY: RELATIVITY BEFORE EINSTEIN (2) WHAT
IS SPACE? (3) PHYSICAL
TIME (4) IS
THE SPACE NON-EUCLIDEAN IN GENERAL RELATIVITY?
KHOKHLOV, D. L. khokhlov@café.sumy.ua
INTERPRETATION
OF THE HUBBLE LAW: EXPANSION versus THE SHIFT OF TIME WITH RADIUS.
KHOLMETSKII, A.L. kholm@bsu.by
ABOUT
THE CAUSALITY PRINCIPLE IN RELATIVITY THEORY
and ONE
CENTURY LATER: REMARKS ON THE BARNETT EXPERIMENT.
KOSTRO, L fizlk@univ.gda.pl
QUANTA
OF ACTION AND RELATIVITY THEORY.
KRACKLAUER, A. F. kracklau@fossi.uni-weimar.de
SPACE-TIME
PERSPECTIVE
KRASNOHOLOVETS, V. krasnoh@iop.kiev.ua
NEWTON’S
POTENTIAL 1/r AS A MANIFESTATION OF THE SPACE DEFORMATION GENERATED BY
QUANTUM MECHANICAL LAWS.
LEVY, J josephlevy1@compuserve.com
(i)
HOW THE APPARENT SPEED OF LIGHT INVARIANCE FOLLOWS FROM LORENTZ
CONTRACTION
& (ii)
SYNCHRONIZATION PROCEDURES AND LIGHT VELOCITY
& (iii)
MASS AND ENERGY IN THE FUNDAMENTAL THEORY OF SPACE AND TIME.
MARMET, P Paul@Marmet.ca
REALISTIC
LORENTZ TRANSFORMATION
MATHE, F FRMATHE@aol.com
COLLAPSING
STARS.
MOROZOV, A.N. amor@physic.bmstu.ru
& GLADYSHEV, V.O. vgladyshev@mail.ru
ON INFLUENCE OF SPACE-TIME CURVATURE FLUCTUATIONS ON LIGHT PROPAGATION
IN UNIVERSE.
MORRIS, T teddington90@screaming.net
THE
ETHER AND OCKHAM’S RAZOR.
NANDI, K.K. kamalnandi@hotmail.com
& ZHANG, Y.Z. yzhang@itp.ac.cn
GENERAL
RELATIVISTIC EFFECTS ON QUANTUM INTERFERENCE
NASSIKAS, A.A. a.a.nass@teilar.gr
THE
RELATIVITY THEORY AND THE QUANTUM MECHANICS UNDER THE CLAIM FOR MINIMUM
CONTRADICTIONS.
NAWROT, O. Dept. for Logic, Methodology & Philosophy of Science, University of Gdansk, ul. Bielanska 5, 80-952 Gdansk, Poland. THE PROBLEMS OF FREE WILL ACCORDING TO ALBERT EINSTEIN.
NESTERUK, A.V. alexei.nesteruk@port.ac.uk
CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE & QUANTUM COSMOLOGY
OSMASTON, M. F. miles@osmaston.demon.co.uk
PIRT VIII PROCEEDINGS VOL II PAPER BY MILES OSMASTON - 'CONTINUUM
THEORY (CT)..... ' on pp.355-385
CONTINUUM
THEORY(CT): MAJOR IMPLICATIONS OF THE ‘PARTICLE-TIED AETHER
(GRAVITATIONAL & ROTATIONAL ASPECTS).&
LUNAR
CONSTRAINTS ON CORE FORMATION: A NEW MODEL WITH MANY IMPLICATIONS
& A
PARTICLE -TIED AETHER
PETRY, W petryw@uni-duesseldorf.de
NONSINGULAR,
ACCELERATING, ALWAYS EXPANDING UNIVERSE WITH ENTROPY PRODUCTION.
RAMANUJAM, A & MEERADEVI, braintrust@vethathiri.org
A
NEW CONCEPT OF GRAVITY: KEPLER’S LAWS REDERIVED.
RAMANUJAM, A & UMA braintrust@vethathiri
GRAVITY:
AN EFFECT OF SPACE ON MASS.
RANGELOV, J. M. rangelov@issp.bas.bg
THE
PHYSICAL MODEL OF THE FLUCTUATING VACUUM AND (I) THE DEPENDENCE OF TIME
FROM ITS COORDINATES WITHIN SPACE, (II) THE PHOTON,
(III)
ITS COLLECTIVE EXCITATIONS: THE PHOTON, NEUTRINO AND QUARKINO.
RAO, S.R.M. srmrao@eth.net
madhurao@hclinfinet.com
ravismrp@vsnl.net
FROM
SIGHTINGS TO SPECIAL RELATIVITY: A ROUTE UNTRODDEN
REUT, Z., City House, 287 City Road, London, EC1V 1LA
EXPLANATION OF SAGNAC EFFECT IN CLASSICAL FRAMEWORK
ROTHENSTEIN, B bernhard_rothenstein@hotmail.com
& DAMIAN, I idamian@etv.utt.ro
THE
NATURE OF THE COULOMBIAN FIELD: WHY TWO FORMULAS FOR THE ELECTRIC FIELD
CREATED BY A MOVING CHARGE?
ROTHENSTEIN, B, BARVINSCHI, F & ROTHENSTEIN, A
DOPPLER
SHIFT IN THE SPHERICAL WAVE: THE GAME WITH THE "VERY SMALL" AND THE
"VERY BIG".
ROWLANDS, P p.rowlands@liverpool.ac.uk
prowl@hep.ph.liv.ac.uk
prowl@csc.liv.ac.uk
THE PHYSICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FACTOR 2
SANTILLI, R., ibr@gte.net
UNIVERSALITY
OF THE ISOSPECIAL RELATIVITY FOR THE INVARIANT DESCRIPTION OF ARBITRARY
SPEEDS OF LIGHT.
SELLERI, F., Franco.Selleri@ba.infn.it
SUPERLUMINAL SIGNALS REQUIRE A MODIFIED THEORY OF RELATIVITY
Sharafiddinov, Rasulkhozha S. Institute of Nuclear Physics, Uzbekistan
Academy of Sciences,Tashkent, 702132 Ulugbek, Uzbekistan
ON
THE ANOMALOUS STRUCTURES OF THE VECTOR LEPTONIC CURRENTS
SIMON, R. A. LAMB, Casilla 27021, Santiago, CHILE.
EDDINGTON’S CONCEPT OF THE ETHER.
SOFONEA, L., and HELEREA, E., helerea@leda.unitbv.ro
THE VECTOR STRUCTURE OF GRAVITATION: PHYSICAL, MATHEMATICAL, HISTORICAL
& METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS
SOLDATOV, A and SOLDATOVA, N. Margo@TV2662.SPB.EDU
PHILOSOPHICAL
ASPECTS OF THE WORLD PICTURE OF SCIENCE AND ART.
SPAVIERI, G. spavieri@ciens.ula.ve
, RODRIGUEZ, M., NIEVES, L., & GILLIES, G. T. gtg@virginia.edu
FUNDAMENTAL
TESTS OF RELATIVITY & ELECTRODYNAMIC THEORIES, CONCEPTUAL
INVESTIGATIONS OF THE TROUTON-NOBLE EXPT., THE DIFFERENTIAL FORM OF
FARADAY’S LAW, AND HIDDEN MOMENTUM EFFECTS.
(with CAVALLERI, G., CESARONI, E., and TONNI, E.) CORRECT
INTERPRETATION OF THE GRANEAU-PHIPPS Jr.-ROSCOE EXPERIMENT ON
ELECTRODYNAMICS
SZOCS, H.L. SZOCS@SZE.HU
SZOCSH@FS2.BDTF.HU
SZH@URANOS.KODOLANYI.HU
ESSAYS
UPON SPECIAL RELATIVITY:
THE
GENERALIZED LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS BETWEEN INERTIAL SYSTEMS
SOME
CONSEQUENCIES OF LORENTZ TRANSFORMATIONS
SU, CHING-CHUAN, ccsu@ee.nthu.edu.tw
QUANTUM
ELECTRODYNAMICS – A LOCAL-ETHER WAVE EQUATION UNIFYING QUANTUM
MECHANICS, ELECTROMAGNETICS & GRAVITATION.
TALBERT, S. H. talbert.samy@ic.gc.ca
ON
SOME INTRINSIC ATTRIBUTES OF MOTION AND PROPAGATION.
TRELL, E., eritr@all.liu.se
TESSELLATION
OF DIOPHANTINE EQUATION BLOCK UNIVERSE.
WEGENER, M. idemw@hum.au.dk
SOME COSMOLOGICAL MODELS: THEIR TIME SCALES AND SPACE METRICS.
WEINBERGER, I., University of Gdansk, Department of Ethics &
Esthetics, 80-952 Gdansk, ul. Bielanska 5, Poland.
WHAT
DID ALBERT EINSTEIN REALLY BELIEVE IN?
WHITNEY, C. K. dwhitney@mit.edu
DO
ATOMS REALLY HAVE ‘STATES’?
WINKLER, F-G., fg.winkler@aon.at
THE
NORMALIZATION PROBLEM OF SPECIAL RELATIVITY.
WINTERBERG, F. winterbe@physics.unr.edu
MAXWELL’S
AETHER, THE PLANCK AETHER HYPOTHESIS AND SOMMERFELD’S FINESTRUCTURE
CONSTANT.
& (ii) ON
STRING (OR M) THEORY AND HIGHER DIMENSIONS. (iii)
PLANCK
MASS ANALOG OF GENERAL RELATIVITY & ELEMENTARY PARTICLE PHYSICS.