Clock time is absolute and universal

Xinhang Shen

doi:10.1117/12.2185474

10 September 2015 Clock time is absolute and universal

Xinhang Shen

Proceedings Volume 9570, The Nature of Light: What are Photons? VI; 95701D (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2185474
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2015, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

A critical error is found in the Special Theory of Relativity (STR): mixing up the concepts of the STR abstract time of a reference frame and the displayed time of a physical clock, which leads to use the properties of the abstract time to predict time dilation on physical clocks and all other physical processes. Actually, a clock can never directly measure the abstract time, but can only record the result of a physical process during a period of the abstract time such as the number of cycles of oscillation which is the multiplication of the abstract time and the frequency of oscillation. After Lorentz Transformation, the abstract time of a reference frame expands by a factor gamma, but the frequency of a clock decreases by the same factor gamma, and the resulting multiplication i.e. the displayed time of a moving clock remains unchanged. That is, the displayed time of any physical clock is an invariant of Lorentz Transformation. The Lorentz invariance of the displayed times of clocks can further prove within the framework of STR our earth based standard physical time is absolute, universal and independent of inertial reference frames as confirmed by both the physical fact of the universal synchronization of clocks on the GPS satellites and clocks on the earth, and the theoretical existence of the absolute and universal Galilean time in STR which has proved that time dilation and space contraction are pure illusions of STR. The existence of the absolute and universal time in STR has directly denied that the reference frame dependent abstract time of STR is the physical time, and therefore, STR is wrong and all its predictions can never happen in the physical world.

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Xinhang Shen "Clock time is absolute and universal", Proc. SPIE 9570, The Nature of Light: What are Photons? VI, 95701D (10 September 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2185474

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