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<language>eng</language>
<publisher>Science and Education Publishing</publisher>
<journalTitle>International Journal of Physics</journalTitle>
<eissn>2333-4886</eissn>
<publicationDate>2014-10-28</publicationDate>
<volume>2</volume>
<issue>6</issue>
<startPage>197</startPage>
<endPage>201</endPage>
<doi>10.12691/ijp-2-6-3</doi>
<publisherRecordId>IJP2014263</publisherRecordId>
<documentType>article</documentType>
<title language="eng">The Critical Error in the Formulation of the Special Relativity</title>
<authors>
<author>
<name>Radwan M. Kassir</name>
<email>radwan.elkassir@dargroup.com</email>
<affiliationId>1</affiliationId>
</author>
</authors>
<affiliationsList>
<affiliationName affiliationId="1">Mechanical Department, DAH (S &amp; P), Beirut, Lebanon</affiliationName>

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<abstract language="eng">The perception of events in two inertial reference frames in relative motion was analyzed from the perspective of the Special Relativity postulates, leading to the Lorentz transformation equations for the time and space coordinate in the relative motion direction. Yet, straightforward inconsistencies were identified upon examining the conversion of the time interval between two co-local events in the traveling reference frame. The approach used in the Special Relativity formulation to get around the identified inconsistencies was revealed. Subsequent mathematical contradictions in the Lorentz transformation equations, disproving the Special Relativity predictions, were shown.</abstract>
<fullTextUrl format="pdf">http://pubs.sciepub.com/ijp/2/6/3/ijp-2-6-3.pdf</fullTextUrl>
<keywords language="eng"><keyword>special relativity</keyword>
<keyword>time dilation</keyword>
<keyword>length contraction</keyword>
<keyword>Lorentz transformation</keyword>
<keyword>mathematical contradictions</keyword>
<keyword>co-local and simultaneous events</keyword>
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