1. Immediate Objectives 1. To describe the physical basis for clock retardation experimental results (e.g., particle lifetimes) 2. To describe the physical basis for length contraction experimental results (e.g., Michelson- Morley experiment) 3. To explain why Einstein’s theory happens to give correct results, despite being based on unsupported postulates 4. Show that 1, 2, and 3 are consistent with the behavior of fractal particles in the fractal cosmos

2. 19 th Century Soups Maxwell’s Choice Aether Tom Young’s Aether Huygens Aether Luminiferous Ether

3. Orbital Speed 30 km/sec relative to ether Aether Soup: Fixed velocity (zero ) relative to ether Velocity of light 300,000 km/sec relative to ether Velocity of light 300,000 km/sec relative to ether

4. James Clerk Maxwell Dies1879Where’s the soup Albert Michelson and Edward C. Morley 1887No soup detected George Fitzgerald1889Length contraction Hendrick Antoon Lorentz1895Lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction H.A Lorentz1904 Lorentz transformation includes Length contraction and clock retardation ( quite detailed ) Albert Einstein1905 Psedudo-derivation of Lorentz transformation A. Einstein1905E= mc 2 Something missing Here for 100 years

5. 100 th Anniversary of the Paper: ELECTROMAGNETIC PHENOMENA IN A SYSTEM MOVING WITH ANY VELOCITY LESS THAN THAT OF LIGHT By H.A. Lorentz

6. The Fractal Cosmos: A Galilean Multiverse GR QFT

7. R0R0 Substrate of a Fractal Universe, Radius = R 0 3D Standing Wave = 4r 0

11. Derivation of Clock Retardation

13. Derivation of Length Contraction

14. Trigonometric Addition of Moving Waves

15. Is Einstein’s Relativity Theory Superfluous? Einstein special theory of relativity Step 1. Assumes two principles: Relativity (indistinguishable reference frames) Constant speed of light. Step 2. Derives L-T Step 3. Physical Meaning Unknown Fractal mechanics Step 1. Shows physical basis for clock retardation Step 2. Shows physical basis for L-F contraction Step 3. L-T follows for specific measurement methodologies Step 4. Two principles follow from L-T

16. Superfluous Vs. Preposterous Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury [Einstein], not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; William Shakespeare, “Julius Caesar,” Act 3, Scene 2