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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'''Derivational.''' [[Neil E Munch]] devoted a series of papers to the logic of the derivations themselves — ''[[The Derivations of the Einstein-Lorentz Transformation]]'' (with [[Robert J Hannon]], 1995), ''[[Consequences of Relativity's Failure To Control Assumptions]]'' (2005), ''[[Conflicts in Special Relativity Resulting from Assumption Shifts]]'' and ''[[Incompatibility of Lorentz Transformations with Michelson-Morley Data]]'' — arguing that the standard derivations shift the meaning of their symbols mid-argument. [[Steven Bryant]] makes a parallel case in ''[[Namespace Analysis in Evaluating the Validity of the Einstein-Lorentz Transformation Equations]]'' (2008). [[John E Chappell]] makes the same charge specifically about simultaneity in ''[[Simultaneity Cannot Possibly be Relative to Motion]]'', following Melbourne Evans and Rosser: a symbol that first denotes a ''length'' is later reassigned to denote a ''point''. [[Alex Ceapa]] and [[Bernard Guy]] examine what the transformations presuppose about the joint definition of space and time.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'''Internal consistency.''' [[Hartwig Wolfgang Thim]]'s ''[[Three Major Inconsistencies of the Lorentz Transformations]]'' ([[Proceedings of the NPA]], 2011) states three: a logical error in the light-speed postulate, the intransitivity of the transformations, and a transverse Doppler shift he reports as experimentally refuted by his own microwave measurements. [[Stephan J G Gift]] argues from the [[GPS]] that the transformations fail operationally (''[[Faster West than East: The GPS Invalidates Special Relativity]]''). [[Georg Galeczki]]'s ''[[Dynamic Gamma Factor: Yes; Lorentz Transformation: No]]'' takes an unusually precise position: the γ factor is real as a ''dynamical'' effect — mass increase with absolute velocity, confirmed in the Bertozzi experiment — but the ''kinematic'' gamma equals one, so no non-Galilean coordinate transformation is licensed.</ins></div></td></tr>
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