The Variable Speed of Light Versus the Absolute Motion of Clocks
Even though the speed of light is always constant in empty space, it is measured to have a different value in every moving inertial frame due to the time dilation of clocks. The following series of thought experiments are devised to show what natural laws and constants remain the same through changes in momentum and which laws are altered by acceleration or deceleration. For ease in calculation, the velocity of .867 c is chosen for these experiments but Lorentz transformations are valid for any absolute velocity relative to the universal position of zero momentum photon rest. At this velocity, the linear Energy/Mass = c2 (relativistic mass) of the ship and crew is equal to the rotational Energy/Mass = C2 (rest mass) of their atoms. This doubling of the ship and crew’s Energy/Mass has slowed the rates of onboard inertial clocks to one-half and speeded the rate of pendulum gravity clocks to 1.414 The experiment begins when the atoms contained in a group of experimental physicists a...