Einstein's Relativity
THE PROBLEM
Prior to the development of the modern ‘relativity’ theories credited to Einstein, the scientists of the day were in a quandary about information which indicated that light and other electromagnetic signals possess properties which can only be explained in terms of a wave motion or else in terms of small discrete bits of energy (or momentum) named 'quanta'. The two explanations are unfortunately incompatible. The particle theory was based on experiments which indicated that electromagnetic signals were composed of discrete units of weightless energy - something like the energy associated with tiny machine gun bullets. The wave theory assumed that electromagnetic signals were due to motion within a weightless fluid called 'ether' - something like waves in a vast universal ocean of water.An experiment using a beam of light was then interpreted to indicate that the ocean of ether does not exist. And that light travels at one constant velocity which is independent of all possible relative motion between the the light source and the light detection systems. This interpretation is still accepted by most of the current science authorities, but remains a subject of increasing debate by a great number of current skeptics.
an interim solution
New theories were then postulated by the scientific authorities to explain the accepted interpretation of the above experiment. It was postulated that the word ‘mass’ as previously created by Newton was actually a form of energy, rather than weight, and that the mathematical value of energy type mass could therefore vary, rather than remain a ‘universal constant’ as proposed by Newton.To explain why the velocity of light remained constant, rather than varying (like all other known physical objects) as a function of the relative velocity between light transmitter and light receptor, it was concluded that the number of units of length, of mass, and of time duration pertaining to moving objects must be variables which change in proportion to the relative velocity of those objects.