High Energy Physics Seminars

Relativity, Dynamics and Gravity (III): Electrodynamics and General Relativity

by Prof. C. S. Unnikrishnan

Thursday, August 30, 2018 from to (Asia/Kolkata)
at TIFR, Mumbai ( AG-66 )
Description
This is the third and concluding part of my discussion of the gravitational paradigm of relativity and dynamics. The theories of relativity originated in the studies in electrodynamics.  The new paradigm of Cosmic Relativity enables us to address and solve the unresolved issues in the fundamental experiments on ”the electrodynamics of moving bodies” done by Faraday and Ampre. I will discuss the unipolar induction results that baffled Faraday, and were left unresolved by his successors. These results reiterate that the cosmic matter-gravity frame is the master reference frame. I will mention two examples of fundamental relativistic metrics that are factually Galilean. With the return of the ”universal” into physics, and a rigorous neo-Galilean basis supported by experimental results, General Relativity loses its postulated general coordinate invariance. The theory already lost a key grip when the Einstein Equivalence Principle was predicted to be violated. However, there is much to gain, apart from the empirical and logical consistency. I will conclude by discussing the modified Einstein’s equations and General Relativity, with its Machian and Galilean content and basis, and yet agreeing with all known empirical tests.