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Einstein and Poincaré: The Physical Vacuum Edited by Valeri V. Dvoeglazov Apeiron Montreal Published by C. Roy Keys Inc. 4405, rue St-Dominique Montreal, Quebec H2W 2B2 Canada http://redshift.vif.com © C. Roy Keys Inc. 2006 First Published 2006 Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Einstein and Poincaré : the physical vacuum / edited by Valeri V. Dvoeglazov. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-9732911-3-3 1. Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955. 2. Poincaré, Henri, 1854-1912. 3. Relativity (Physics). 4. Ether (Space) I. Dvoeglazov, Valeri V. QC173.6.E45 2006 530.11092'2 C2006-903323-4 Table of Contents Editorial Introduction............................................................................. i Jean-Pierre Vigier Interactions of Internal Inertial and Phase Space Motions of Extended Particle Elements Moving in Dirac’s Real “Aether” Model..................................................................................... 1 M. C. Duffy The Ether Concept in Modern Physics ............................................... 11 F. Selleri Absolute Velocity Resolution of the Clock Paradox .......................... 35 Alexander L. Kholmetskii Empty Space-Time and the General Relativity Principle ................... 55 L.C. Barbosa Temporal Light Dispersion in Intergalactic Space ............................. 73 B.G. Sidharth The Mysterious Dark Energy.............................................................. 79 Héctor A. Múnera The Evidence for Length Contraction at the Turn of the 20th Century: Non-existent......................................................................... 87 Vladimir Onoochin and Stefan von Weber On the Size of Moving Rigid Bodies Determined from Conditions of Equilibrium of Ions in a Crystalline Lattice............... 103 Yves Pierseaux Einstein’s Spherical Wavefronts versus Poincaré’s Ellipsoidal Wavefronts...................................................................... 115 Reginald T. Cahill The Einstein Postulates: 1905-2005 A Critical Review of the Evidence...................................................................................... 129 Volodymyr Krasnoholovets The Tessellattice of Mother-Space as a Source and Generator of Matter and Physical Laws............................................ 143 Adolphe Martin Gravitation in a Gaseous Ether ......................................................... 155 D. F. Roscoe Maxwell’s Equations: New Light on Old Problems ......................... 163 Editorial Introduction This book is dedicated to significant contributions made to physics by Poincaré and Einstein 100 years ago [1,2] (see also [3]). As we celebrate the International Year of Physics, we might ask: Is Physics in good health? Everyone has his own answer to this simple question. Consequently, we decided to publish this book under the intriguing title “Einstein and Poincaré: the physical vacuum.” The reader may be puzzled by the choice of theme, which would seem to have been fully studied years ago. We fully sympathize with him: it was and is indeed astonishing for us that after more than 100 years of research the topic is still full of surprises. In a way, it has a life of its own. The highly respected authors of this volume appear to have agreed with us in presenting their thoughtful pieces of research. These are Profs. Vigier, Duffy, Selleri, Kholmetskii, Barbosa, Sidharth, Munera, Onoochin and Weber, Pierseaux, Cahill, Krasnoholovets, Martin and Roscoe. Special thanks to them all! While their papers speak for themselves, I feel compelled to say few words for myself. The posthumous paper b