Volume 7: Pages 495-502, 1994
More Experiments Proposed to Test Special Relativity and an Alternative
Young‐Sea Huang 1
1Department of Physics, Soochow University, Shin‐Lin, Taipei Taiwan
In a previous paper [Phys. Essays 5, 451 (1992)] we introduced a relativistic electromagnetic force law in a theory of relativity alternative to the Lorentz force law in special relativity, and demonstrated that no existing experimental evidence can convincingly distinguish between the two force laws. In addition, we proposed a “uniform circular motion” experimental test to distinguish between the two force laws. In the present paper we first emphasize important distinctions between the two force laws. Next, we propose a “linear motion” experimental test for the two force laws which is complementary to the previously proposed test. The experimental test proposed here is less expensive and more practical to carry out than the previously proposed test.
Keywords: special relativity, other theories of relativity, experimental tests of special relativity
Received: April 11, 1994; Published Online: December 15, 2008
