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A completely new approach!, August 2, 2001
Reviewer: Professor Frank Senftle from USA
General and Special Relativity and its associated mathematics have proven most useful in interpreting many observable phenomena in modern physics. Dowdye's Extinction Shift Theory shows that the same phenomena can be explained in much simpler terms solely by using Galilean Transformations. If his theory is proven valid by experiment, we will have a completly new approach to explain many results in modern physics. For those of us who are steeped in relativitic thinking, the Extinction Shift Principle may be difficult to accept, but, if true, accept it we must!


Naturally Thought-Provoking and Controversial!, June 14, 2001
Reviewer: Professor Prabhakar Misra from Washington, DC
Dr. Edward Dowdye's book takes a controversial approach to solving physics problems associated with various fields and radiation using the "extinction shift principle" in conjunction with the Galilean transformation. The approach has its critics, since it flies in the face of now conventional and accepted wisdom. Be that as it may, the treatise is definitely thought-provoking!

Reviewer: Dr. Charles W. Lucas, Jr.  USA, theoretical physicist, September 10, 2002
Dowdye Presents Alternative to Special and General Relativity Dowdye addresses an important but often overlooked topic in physics, i.e. emission theory. He develops a new classical emission theory based on the extinction effect observed in light moving through media. Dowdye applies his emission theory plus the Galilean transformation of velocities to electromagnetism and gravity. He is able to obtain the principal results of special relativity for electromagnetism and of general relativity for gravitation. Since Ewald (1912) and Oseen (1915) discovered the extinction effect, scientists have known that special relativity was no longer consistent with the Fizeau and Michelson-Morley experiments with light moving through a medium. These experiments were used as the basis for initially accepting relativity theory. Dowdye is to be commended for not buckling under to political correctness but rather developing a proper classical emission theory based on reality instead of an idealized point-particle universe.

Review from Karlsruhe Conference

Reviewer: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Edgar Kaucher � Institut f�r angewandte Mathematik der Universit�t Karlsruhe, May 15, 2003

Lieber Herr Dowdye,
 ich hoffe Sie hatten eine gute R�ckreise.

Hier ein Entwurf f�r ein Review Ihrer Arbeit und Ihrer Hompage.

Memorandum:

Ich habe die Homepage und die B�cher von Herrn Dr. Dowdye studiert und habe dazu auch einen workshop veranstaltet, um im Kreis erfahrener Physiker die Ausf�hrungen von Herrn Dowdye zu p�fen. Ich bin zu folgendem Geamtresultat gelangt:

Die mathematischen Formeln der Spezielle Reletvit�tstheorie (SRT) sind durch die Arbeiten von Herrn Dowdye regelrecht mathmatisch und physikalisch auf v�llig unabh�ngigen Wegen und sogar auf der elementaren Basis der Euklidischen Geometrie und der Galileischen Raum Zeit Invarianz bewiesen worden. Das ist eine geniale  Nobelpreisverd�chtige Leistung, denn damit ist ein (von Einstein so sehnlich gesuchter) Zugang zur Erkl�rung der "relativistischen Effekte" allein nur mit den Mitteln der Galileischen Raum Zeit Physik und des Heuygenschen Wellenprinzips gelungen. Im ersten Eindruck wird man versucht sein anzunehmen, da� das doch damit zu einem Widerspruch zur SRT f�hren m��te. Doch das genial elegante an diesem Dowdyeschen Weg ist, da� er die mathematischen Aussagen der SRT voll und ganz best�tigt, zugleich aber zeigt, da� die bisherigen physikalischen Interpretationen unn�tig kompliziert und eigentlich wirklichkeitsfremd waren. Die Beweisg�nge von Dowdye zeigen, da� die relativistischen Effekte durch bekannte Welleneigenschaften in galileischen Koordinaten wirklichkeitsnah erkl�rt und beschrieben werden k�nnen, was dann zu denselben Formeln der SRT f�hrt. Man kann es auch so sagen: Die SRT gilt, wurde aber unter nicht zul�ssigen physikalischen Annahmen hergelitet, dagegen gibt es eine physikalisch Herleitung, die dann alerding s die Galileische Welt im Euklidischen Raum zugrundelegen mu�.

Damit sind zugleich Ans�tze gegeben daf�r, wie auch quantenphysiklische Aspekte in �hnliche Weise durch deterministisch-physikalische Prozesse erkl�rt werden k�nnten. Es w�re ein gro�er Fortschritt f�r die Physik und w�rde v�llig neue Perspektiven in der Beschreibung und im Verst�ndnis der Naturvorg�nge erm�glichen, wenn diese deterministische Kl�rung irgendwann auf der Basis der Dowdyeschen Methode in �hnlicher Weise gelingen w�rde. Dann w�rde endlich der von Einstein langersehnte Wunsch in Erf�llung gehen, da� die Natur nicht w�rfelt, sondern die Statistik im Mikrokosmos durch gewisse nicht gen�gend erfa�te Begleiterscheinungen verursacht ist, die durch geeignete Analyse der physiklischen Bedingungen erfa�t werden k�nnen.

Prof. Dr. Edgar Kaucher, am Institut f�r Angewandte Mathematik der
Universit�t Karlsruhe

Nochmals Dank f�r Ihr Kommen und Vortragen. Ihr E Kaucher

Translation: Edward H. Dowdye, Jr.

Lieber Herr Dowdye,
 I hope you had a good trip back.

Here a draft for a Review of your Work and your Web-Page.

Memorandum:
I have studied the Web page and the book by Dr. Dowdye and have setup a workshop in order to examine the presentation of Dr. Dowdye in a circle of experienced Physicists.  I have come to the following final result:

The mathematical formulas of the Special Relativity Theory (SRT) have been verified by the treatise of Dowdye mathematically and physically correct in a completely independent manner by Dowdye and even on the elementary basis of Euclidean Geometry and the Galilean Space Time Invariance.  That is an achievement suspect of a Nobel Prize, as it is therewith a (by Einstein so sought after) access to the explanation of the "relativistic effects" alone, accomplished solely by means of Galilean Space Time Physics and Huygen's Wave Principles.  At first impression, one is tempted to assume that this leads herewith to a contradiction to SRT.  Yet the brilliantly elegance of this Dowdye approach is that he confirms the mathematical statements of SRT fully and entirely, at the same time however shows that the previous physical interpretations were unnecessarily complicated and were actually unrealistic.  The proofs of Dowdye show that the relativistic effects can be explained and described by well known waves characteristics in Galilean coordinates realistically, what then leads to the same formulas of SRT.  One can also say: The SRT is valid, but however were not derived under reliable physical assumptions, on the other hand, there must be a physical derivation which is based entirely on the Galilean World in Euclidean Space.

Therewith, at the same time, principles are given therefor, just as quantum physical aspects could be explained in a similar manner by deterministical physical processes.  A would be a great progress for Physics and would enable totally new perspectives in the description and in the understanding of natural processes if this deterministic clarification would succeed someday on the basis of the Dowdye method in more similar manner. Einstein's long sought after wish would finally be in fulfillment, that nature does not play at dice, but rather the statistics in the microcosm is caused by certain not sufficiently grasped  accompaniments, that can be grasped by suitable analysis of the physical conditions.


Prof. Dr. Edgar Kaucher, at the Institute for Applied Mathematics of the
Universit�t Karlsruhe

Again Thanks for your coming and presenting. Ihr E Kaucher