ECLIPSE 1919 AND THE GENERAL RELATIVITY THEORY

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INTRODUCTION

   Alphonsus Kelly, an Ireland engineer, in his lecture at Trinity College, Dublin, on February 15, 1996, stated that the Einstein’s Relativity theory might be wrong. Kelly revealed the experiment of Sagnac, the French physicist in the year 1914, showing that the time taken by a light to complete one rotation is found to be different from the time taken by one rotation in opposite direction. The Sagnac’s experiment proved that the speed of light was not constant. It is different from Einstein’s theory stating that the light velocity is constant.

   

   Reaction was given by an English astronomer, Arnold Wolfendale, stating that to design an experiment to prove that the light velocity is not constant is really a difficult thing to do.

  

   “ You cannot demolish a very strong theory such as Einstein’s Relativity only be based on a cheap experiment,” said Wolfendale reffering to Kelly’s opinion indicating that Enstein was wrong just based on Sagnac’s experiment. Wolfendale added that the particle accelerator all over the world have proven the truth of Einstein’s Relativity.

  

   “ We are engineer, will never give up, “ said Kelly to The Times. “ I know there is a priest preaching a mystery not known to him, and I think the physicists do the same thing.”

  

   Einstein’s Relativity claimed to be erroneous by Alphonsus Kelly is the one related to the Special Relativity theory / light velocity. Possibly his claim is true, if he is given a chance to prove it, either by means of pure theory or by a support of an experiment. It is not fair to declare that Kelly’s claim is a wrong just only by reffering to the particle accelerator machine.

   

   There is no doubt about superiority of the particle accelerator machine, however, the limit of human sensory of sight constitutes a hindrance difficult to avoid. In addition, Einstein himself exposed his theories shaking the classical theory of physic, not by using the accelerator machine either. He merely used the pure theoretical method with his brilliant analysis and simple experiment, and even the imaginary experiment.

   

   Einstein’s theories, either Special Relativity or General Relativity, in principle arose from the firmness and faith of Einstein upon the harmony of universe. Einstein believed the universe was entirely always symmetrical and harmonious that should have been created by Supreme Intelligence.

   

   In gigantic scale, the universe is so homogenous. In whatever directions we look at all dots in the sky, they look the same and uniform. This is frequently asked by the scientists, and it creates the idea about the theory of establishment of universe, the beginning and the end of the universe in their opinions.

   

   Einstein’s general relativity theory stating that the natural law for all systems were equally applicable without being affected by their movements. This was a development of Special Relativity, and was announced in 1916. Einstein also issued a hypothesis considering the light as a particle. Therefore, light is influenced by gravity. Based on this hypothesis Einstein concluded that the light just as other material objects, moved in curve if gravity field of an object was massive. Such Einstein’s hypothesis on light caused dualism in modern physics, namely Dualism of Particle Wave.

   Justification or denial to a certain theory is best proven by self-proving concept. The self-proving concept was first presented by Aristotle in the 3^rd  century BC. Such a concept was also strongly held by Einstein, in which he was reluctant to accept a non self-proving theory.

   Many theories of physics exposed at the beginning of the 20^th century were self-proving, such as Photoelectric Effects conducted by Einstein, as a support to the Quantum Theory presented by Max Planck in 1900, that had been self-proven. It even produced the most admired technology at present : Information Technology.

   But Einstein’s Relativity Theory, from the beginning until now is still controversy. Let us note that in practice for the General Relativity Theory, if Einstein’s theory of general relativity was correct, then the light from star that passed closest to the Sun would show the greatest  degree of bending, and the star whose light tracks are very far from the sun have their light not being bent or deflected. The star whose light are not deflected means that there is no difference between the image/apparent position and the actual position of the star.

   If being consistent with this theory, it means that all stars visible at night time are at the appearance of the stars on their actual position, because the said star do not pass through the field of gravity. This is certainly incorrect if it is seen from the astronomical scientific point of view.  The star  in the sky at night time and seen by the observers, all are stars on apparent position, not on their actual position.

 The proving method / tests on the theory of general relativity as requested by its founder, Albert Einstein, is unjustifiable from scientific point of view of the astronomy.

Einstein ignored light refraction through the Earth's atmosphere when he desires used a method for validating his General Theory of Relativity in 1919.