Elementary Approach to Special Relativity

Helmut Günther was professor at the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences for Mathematics and Physics until 2005 and currently teaches relativity theory at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

• The Discovery of the Ether.- The Ether and the Wave Equation.- The Physical Elements of the Special Theory of Relativity.- Where does the Wave Equation Come from?.- The Wave Equation and the Third Axiom Lattice and the Continuum Crystalline Solid – Dislocations.- The sine-Gordon Equation of a Dislocation Natural Measuring-Rods and Clocks Measuring-rods and Clocks in Motion.- A Clock Paradox Measurement of the Critical Velocity.- The Lorentz Transformation.- The Linear Approximation of Special Relativity.- The Principle of Relativity: The Lost Crystal.- Two Axiomatic Systems for Special Relativity.- The Twin Paradox.-The Doppler Effect..- Aberration.- Tachyons and Causality Violation of Relativity.- The Rediscovered Crystal Particles and Fields.- A Particle Solution- the Inertia of Energy.- The Michelson Experiment.- Elastic Displacements and Waves.- Eigen.- Stresses and Dislocations.- The Separation of Eigen Stresses.- Particles and Tachyons.- Tachyons of the Plastic Deformation.- On the Problem of Causality: Particle.- Tachyon Collisions.