Absurd: Einstein’s special relativity (SR) causes an inconstant speed of light, claiming to explain the consequences of a constant speed c

Abstract

Einstein was led astray by a physically incorrect calculation by Michelson and Morley in the context of the Michelson‐Morley experiment. For the light beam in the horizontal light path, their calculation yields the claim that [(1 − v/c) × c] + [(1 + v/c) × c] = 2[(1 − v2/c2) × c]. This is incorrect and mathematically increases the horizontal light path 2d 0 by the factor [(1 + v2/c2)], which Einstein’s theory of special relativity corrects by introducing the time dilation factor γ and the length contraction factor 1/γ. When we calculate correctly, the mathematical increase in the length of horizontal light path no longer happens and Einstein’s mathematical corrections of the horizontal light path imply an inconstancy of the speed of light. This means that Einstein’s special relativity is just a mathematical correction of a physical calculation error, not a true physical theory, and it was thus pure chance that Einstein found the physically real kinematic time dilation factor γ. The null result of the Michelson‐Morley experiment, along with the kinematic and gravitational time dilation, must instead be explained by a constant value for the speed c of light with respect to the gravitational potentials of predominant gravitational fields, resulting from the principles of minimum energy and energy conservation. On this basis, it becomes possible to predict so-called general relativistic phenomena, e.g., the precession of Mercury’s perihelion or the phenomena observed in the binary pulsar PSR B1913 + 16, just by applying Kepler’s second law and simple quantum physical considerations. [R. G. Ziefle, Phys. Essays 33, 99 (2020)].