About the Book
1 The Discovery of the Ether
2 The Ether and the Wave Equation
3 The Physical Elements of the Special Theory of Relativity
4 Where does the Wave Equation Come from?
5 The Wave Equation and the Third Axiom
6 Lattice and the Continuum
7 Crystalline Solid - Dislocations
8 The sine-Gordon Equation of a Dislocation
9 Natural Measuring-Rods and Clocks
10 Measuring-rods and Clocks in Motion
11 A Clock Paradox
12 Measurement of the Critical Velocity
13 The Lorentz Transformation
14 The Linear Approximation of Special Relativity
15 The Principle of Relativity: The Lost Crystal
16 Two Axiomatic Systems for Special Relativity
17 The Twin Paradox
18 The Doppler Effect
19 Aberration
20 Tachyons and Causality
21 Violation of Relativity - the Rediscovered Crystal
22 Particles and Fields
23 A Particle Solution - the Inertia of Energy
24 The Michelson Experiment
25 Elastic Displacements and Waves
26 Eigen Stresses and Dislocations
27 The Separation of Eigen Stresses
28 Particles and Tachyons
29 Tachyons of the Plastic Deformation
30 On the Problem of Causality: Particle - Tachyon Collisions
About the Author: 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.
