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Bhopal:
It has been observed that in the recent years that many scientists
are seen raising fingers on Albert Einstein's Special Theory of
Relativity. In the midst of this dissatisfaction on the relativity
theory an Indian scientist Mr. Mohammed
Javed Khilji based at Gwalior, a town in
the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, has claimed to have
redone Special Theory of Relativity. His research paper “Intrinsic
Laws of Motion Are Invariant” has been
published in Physics Essays (publication of American Institute of
Physics), Vol. 24, issue 4, December 2011.
In an exclusive interview to this
Correspondent Mr. Mohammed Javed Khilji informed that after a
two-and-half-years of rigorous peer review, his paper was finally
published in the journal on December 19, 2011. He said he has
raised some very fundamental questions on the very definition of
relative motion and pointed out great flaw in Doppler’s effect. He
has redefined relative motion as a synthesis of both real and
imaginary motions rejecting the existing definition which defines
it merely a direction reversal with real velocities.
Mr. Khilji revealed that he was
taken aback to notice as to how an stationary object can be said
to be moving with real velocity no matter what the situation
prevails, negative and positive only indicates the direction but
with real velocity. He emphasized that the stationary frame moving
with real velocity is just as beating a dead horse. The stationary
object only appears to be moving from moving frame and that too
till the moving one remains in motion. So, this appearance can
only be associated with imaginary movement but in no way it can be
said to be a real motion. And this is the key of his research
paper, he added.
While pointing out flaw in Doppler’s
effect in the existing literature, Mr. Khilji has corrected the
Doppler’s formula in the changed perspective of relative motion as
for receding and
 for
approaching as against the
for receding and
for approaching, in the existing literature.
Mr. Khilji’s one of the most
significant finding is the differentiation between vector and
scalar quantities. He proved that vector quantities reflect
reciprocity whereas scalars show inverse effect. His theory
successfully resolves the twin paradox as his theory clubs time
dilation with time concentration which is a new concept put
forward in his paper.
Similarly, the new mass-velocity
relation very successfully handles infinity catastrophe which is
the case in the existing relation when particle touches the
optical velocity limit. According to the new relation a particle
at optical velocity transforms itself into photons which are the
constituents of light. This way it can be found useful in
explaining the cause of the GRBs (Gamma Rays Burst ) phenomenon,
also the cause of the birth of anti-matters and the nature of
cosmic rays and dark matter, Mr. Khilji explained.
Mr. Khilji’s paper seems to be
gaining momentum which is clear from the read history of the
article in the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) which is a
Digital Library portal for researchers in Astronomy and Physics,
operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) under
a NASA grant. So far the Reads’ number of the paper is found
highest among the contemporary research articles of the same issue
of the journal. This paper can also be seen on some more popular
sites such as National Research Council Canada, High Beam Research
etc.
Meanwhile, the Head of the
Mathematics Department in Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh,
Prof. Zafar Ahsan, who is among the “Top 100 Scientists of the
World 2011” by International Biographical Centre, Cambridge
(England), and a recipient of “The International EINSTEIN AWARD
(2011), has appreciated Khilji’s work in his comments as follows:-
“The findings of the above paper are
new, thought provoking and needs the attention of physicists in
general and to special relativists in particular. The
investigations of the paper open a new paper, mathematical
calculations and relations are correct and precise”.
Prof. Ahsan commented: “In fact, Mr.
Khilji has proposed a method to identify the inertial frames of
reference and determined the motion of an observer in the
universe, which is supposed to be isotropic, without incorporating
the third reference point. The reciprocal electrodynamics is shown
to be a special case of Einstein ‘a Special Theory of Relativity,
and a flaw in the Doppler's effect has been pointed out”.
“The observations about the vector
and scalar quantities have also been made by the author in his
paper and it is seen that scalar quantities never be reciprocal.
The phenomenon of time dilation and concentration, the variation
of mass with velocity and other related concepts have been dealt
very successfully in the paper”, Prof. Ahsan opined.
Prof. Ahsan is also recipient of
“Rashtriya Gaurav Award” (2007), “Shiksha Rattan Puraskar” (2007)
and “The Best Citizens of India Award” (2006, 2007, 2008).
Meanwhile, it may be pointed
out here that Mr. Khilji’s one more related paper was published
under the title of “Modified Field Theory” in an online
international journal ‘Journal of Theoretics’
in its Vol. 6-6 in December 2004 (available on its website
http://journaloftheoretics.com/second-index.htm URL
www.journaloftheoretics.com/Articles/6-6/MOHD%20field.pdf),
states that when a material particle attains the velocity of light
it transforms itself into light particle photons. It is contrary
to Einstein’s prediction of infinite mass which becomes
motionless. In this paper he had pointed out how Einstein’s famous
mass velocity relation is inappropriate and what could be the
possible change that can improve the theory. This paper was solely
based on kinematics ground and it was only one case of mass
velocity relation.
However, the recently published
paper deals all the cases of Special Theory of Relativity such as
mass-velocity relation, time dilation, Doppler’s effect etc. and
it is based both on kinematics as well as on relativistic grounds.
When questioned about his scientific
research inclination Mr. Khilji told this Correspondent that he
was initially motivated by his parents for research. He said he
went ahead despite the financial constraints and unemployment. He
still has no financial support from any institution or government
and that is the main constraint in his further researches, he
moaned.
Meanwhile, it may be mentioned here
that in physics, special relativity is a fundamental theory
concerning space and time, developed by Albert Einstein in 1905[1]
as a modification of Galilean relativity. The theory was able to
explain some pressing theoretical and experimental issues in the
physics of the time involving light and electrodynamics, such as
the failure of the 1887 Michelson–Morley experiment.
Einstein postulated that the speed
of light in free space is the same for all observers, regardless
of their motion relative to the light source, where we may think
of an observer as an imaginary entity with a sophisticated set of
measurement devices, at rest with respect to itself, that
perfectly record the positions and times of all events in space
and time.
This postulate stemmed from the
assumption that Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism, which
predict a specific speed of light in vacuum, hold in any inertial
frame of reference[2] rather than, as was previously believed,
just in the frame of the aether. This prediction contradicted the
laws of classical mechanics, which had been accepted for
centuries, by arguing that time and space are not fixed and in
fact change to maintain a constant speed of light regardless of
the relative motions of sources and observers.
Einstein's approach was based
on thought experiments, calculations, and the principle of
relativity, which is the notion that all physical laws should
appear the same (that is, take the same basic form) to all
inertial observers.
(pervezbari@eth.net)
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