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Major expansion from the primary sources: explain the primacy-of-the-Doppler-effect argument (velocity dependence assigned to k and omega rather than r and t), the Fizeau reanalysis with its actual numbers and t-test, the discriminating refractive-index experiment they propose, the Cornell interferometer work, and Randy Wayne's Laboratory of Natural Philosophy; add assessment and paper citations

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 {{Infobox scientist
 | name = Anthony F. Maers
-| fields = Physics
+| alt = Anthony F. Maers
-| workplaces = Cornell University
+| fields = Physics, Biological statistics and computational biology
-| known_for = Doppler-based alternative to special relativity
+| workplaces = Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology, Cornell University
 }}
-'''Anthony F. Maers''' is a researcher known for proposing, with Randy Wayne of Cornell University, an alternative approach to the theory of special relativity based on the Doppler effect. He is listed in ''[[The Worldwide List of Dissident Scientists]]''.
+'''Anthony F. Maers''' is a researcher in the Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology at Cornell University who, with '''Randy Wayne''' of Cornell's Laboratory of Natural Philosophy, has argued that the observations underpinning [[Special relativity|special relativity]] can be accounted for '''without the relativity of space and time''' — by taking the '''Doppler effect''' as primary instead. He is listed in ''[[The Worldwide List of Dissident Scientists]]''.
-==Work==
+Their case is unusual among the critiques catalogued on this wiki in two respects. It is '''quantitative''' — they claim their equation fits the historical data better than the standard treatment, and support the claim with a statistical test. And it is '''falsifiable''' — they identify a specific measurement on which their theory and special relativity make different predictions, and propose the experiment.
-==External links==
+==The primacy of the Doppler effect==
-* [https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.2305 "Rethinking the Foundations of the Theory of Special Relativity" (arXiv:1105.2305)]
 [[Category:Scientist|Maers Anthony]]
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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Anthony F. Maers
| fields = Physics
| workplaces = Cornell University
| known_for = Doppler-based alternative to special relativity
}}

'''Anthony F. Maers''' is a researcher known for proposing, with Randy Wayne of Cornell University, an alternative approach to the theory of special relativity based on the Doppler effect. He is listed in ''[[The Worldwide List of Dissident Scientists]]''.

==Work==
Maers and Wayne authored "Rethinking the Foundations of the Theory of Special Relativity: Stellar Aberration and the Fizeau Experiment" (arXiv:1105.2305, 2011). They propose a relativistic wave equation founded on what they call the primacy of the Doppler effect, which they argue accounts for the propagation of light between two inertial frames — including stellar aberration and the results of the Fizeau moving-water experiment — without introducing the relativity of space and time. They also reported a laboratory reconstruction of the Fizeau experiment using laser light and digital image analysis. The work appeared in arXiv's General Physics section and its reinterpretation of special relativity is not accepted by the mainstream physics community.

==External links==
* [https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.2305 "Rethinking the Foundations of the Theory of Special Relativity" (arXiv:1105.2305)]

[[Category:Scientist|Maers Anthony]]
[[Category:Worldwide List of Dissident Scientists]]

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