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| birth_date = {{birth date|1971|12|10|mf=y}}
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| fields = [[Professor]], [[Electrical Engineer]]
| fields = [[Electromagnetism]], [[Electrical engineering]], [[Applied mathematics]]
| workplaces = [[Yıldız Technical University]]
| residence = Istanbul, Turkey
| residence = Istanbul, Turkey
| nationality = Turkish
| nationality = Turkish
| known_for = [[Electromagnetism]], [[antennas]], [[propagation]], [[radiation]], [[scattering]], [[applied mathematics]], [[mathematical physics]]
| known_for = [[Electromagnetism]], [[antennas]], [[propagation]], [[radiation]], [[scattering]], [[applied mathematics]], [[mathematical physics]]
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<b> Personal Web Site:</b>  http://www.aburakpolat.com
<b> Institutional Web Site:</b>  http://avesis.yildiz.edu.tr/abpolat/


<b>Physical World View:</b>     
'''Abdullah Burak Polat''' (born 10 December 1971), publishing as '''Burak Polat''', is a Turkish [[electrical engineer]] and academic who works in the field of theoretical and applied [[electromagnetism]]. He is a professor in the Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering at [[Yıldız Technical University]] in Istanbul, where he directs the Radar Research Laboratory (RADAL). His research covers [[electromagnetic]] theory, [[wave propagation]], [[antennas]], [[scattering]] and the electrodynamics of moving bodies, and he is known within the [[dissident science]] community for his advocacy of "Hertzian" and "frame indifferent" formulations of electromagnetism as alternatives to the relativistic treatment of moving media.
As a Professor of Theoretical Electromagnetism my personal perspective on macroscobic electromagnetic theory can be outlined as follows:
* Neither time nor velocity (or speed) is a physical quantity. Traditionally, a physical quantity is defined as any quantity that can be quantified by measurement and has a specific unit in a given unit system (such as MKS or CGS system). This is a superficial useless description. "Physical" quantities are ONLY those associated with CONSERVATION LAWS. Mass, charge, momentum and energy are such common examples. In that regard, distance and time lapse are NOT physical quantities, they are only mathematical tools to describe a physical mechanism. They cannot be quantified by measurements either; they are actually the conceptual tools  utilized to set up a measurement system. The (3+1)D notation to describe four dimensional space is also meaningless since space and time are equivalent conceptually and functionally. It is just 4D Space !.
* Velocity and acceleration, which are derived in terms of distance and time lapse, are therefore NOT physical quantities, either.
* The nature of a physical quantity cannot change (in other words, remains the same) when multiplied with a nonphysical quantity. For instance, mass is a physical quantity from the discipline of mechanics. Momentum and force, which are derived by multiplying mass with velocity and acceleration respectively, are again quantities of same nature (belonging to the same discipline).
A contradicting case can be given from Maxwell-Minkowski Electrodynamics: Under Lorentz Transformations electrical field in the moving frame is observed as magnetic field in the laboratory frame, which appears as multiplication of electrical field with VELOCITY. This is only one example to realize that Special Relativity is physically unsupported. Electrical and magnetic fields are of DIFFERENT nature and origin. Velocity, as a nonphysical quantity, is never capable of transforming an electrical field quantity into a magnetic one, same as an apple does not turn into an orange as it starts to move. 
* CONVECTION CURRENTS SIGNIFY MATERIAL DISPLACEMENT!. Please be advised that laws of electromagnetism of STATIONARY MEDIA cannot involve convection currents. Their inclusion into Maxwell's Equations always yield physically unsupported results that VIOLATE continuity of current as the partial time derivatives in Faraday-Maxwell and Ampere-Maxwell Equations require to be replaced with material (aka convective, substantial) derivate when the velocity field is a function of time and with Oldroyd (aka upper convected material or comoving time) derivative when the velocity field is an arbitrary function of space and time. The presence of convection currents in Ampere-Maxwell's Law functions analytically same as conduction currents that radiate electromagnetic waves. Let me address  two common misinterpretations:


1) ''The belief that a STATIC point source in motion RADIATES electromagnetic energy described via Lienard - Wiechert Potentials''. What actually happens is that the static field lines (flux) generated by the point charge move in accord with the arbitrary motion of the source AS A WHOLE, without any deformation in shape.  
==Biography==
Polat has held academic positions at a number of Turkish and international institutions over his career. He served as a research assistant in the mid-1990s, then held appointments at Istanbul University and, around 2000–2001, at the Technical University of Denmark ([[Danmarks Tekniske Universitet]]). He was an associate professor at [[Istanbul Technical University]] (2003–2005) before being appointed full professor, holding chairs successively at Bursa Uludağ University (2005–2010), Trakya University (2010–2013, where he also served as a dean), and Beykent University. He was head of department at Istanbul Gelişim University (2016–2017) and, since 2017, has been a professor at Yıldız Technical University.


2) ''Generation of magnetostatic field when a disk supporting free charges rotates uniformly around its own axis (known as Rowland's Disk). And in presence of acceleration there is believed to occur electromagnetic radiation mechanism''. Actually, uniform rotation of such a disk of free static charges does not generate any magnetic field. One always observes the circulation of static electric field lines (flux) in space REGARDLESS OF acceleration.
His indexed academic output includes on the order of one hundred publications, with dozens indexed in the Web of Science and Scopus databases across the categories of electrical and electronic engineering and mathematical physics. His stated current research interests include radar theory and the application of electromagnetics in biology and medicine, in addition to remote sensing and antenna theory.


* Another conceptual failure of Special Relativity reveals upon the application of Lorentz Transformations to Maxwell's Equations which involve convection currents. This is known as Maxwell-Minkowski Electrodynamics. While convection currents are fully capable of modeling mechanical motion of sources with ARBITRARY velocity, one applies Lorentz Transformation to understand the action of "rectilinear unaccelerated motion" over a system already "in general arbitrary motion"! Funnier is the fact that the motion in moving frame is described by Maxwell's Equations involving convection currents which obey Newtonian Mechanics in Euclidean 4D Space, while the motion in observer frame is described via Lorentz Transformations assuming that Newtonian Mechanics is incorrect. Sheer absurdity !
==Scientific contributions==
* It should not be forgotten that Lorentz Transformations DO NOT yield Galilean Transformations exactly in the limiting case as the relativistic factor  Beta=1/sqrt(1-v^2/c^2) tends to 1. This means that Special (and General) Relativity is NOT A COVERING THEORY for Newtonian Mechanics. On the contrary, the physical evidences of these two theories are on opposite ends. Therefore anyone who "believes" that Special (and General) Relativity is correct, then he/she is in a position NOT to utilize any mathematical tool and physical law devised in Classical Continuum Physics in Euclidean 4D Space in describing any physical mechanism. This includes claiming the classical Faraday's Law (emf induction mechanism) and Doppler Effect from Hertzian Electromagnetism, which are widely used and tested every single day in every technological area since late 19th century till date to be ERRONEOUS. Good Luck there!
Much of Polat's technical work concerns [[electromagnetic scattering]] and the interaction of electromagnetic waves with bodies in motion. He has published analyses of plane-wave scattering by perfectly conducting (PEC) and dielectric bodies in uniform rectilinear, rotational and harmonic motion, and, with Ramazan Daşbaşı, work validating these formulations in problems such as a rectangular waveguide with a rotating PEC termination.
* I cannot help but emphasizing that the combination of the words "Special" and "Theory" is an oxymoron. After all, special cases do not make a theory!  Correct title would be Special Case of Relativity Theory but still that would be absurd since one claims to introduce a special case of a theory before the theory itself.
* It is nothing but a waste of time for those trying to extend the capability of Lorentz Transformations to bodies in arbitrary motion. Lorentz Transformation only apply for a POINT particle. Any attempt to generalize the velocity vector is MATHEMATICALLY UNSUPPORTED. An example is the "Instantaneous Rest Frame Approach" by Van Bladel. One can realize that they ALL consent on calling such attempts HEURISTIC. This is nothing but a kind way of saying something is BULLSHIT !       
* It should be realized that invoking Special (or General) Relativity into classical electromagnetism is totally UNNECESSARY and yields INSUFFICIENT AND INCORRECT results that contradict with well established experiments in the context of Electrical Engineering. Relativity theory does not stem from the so called experimental proofs of unpresence of aether in the second half of 19th century, but its origin lies on the fact that  Einstein was not able to grasp papers of Hertz and Heaviside on electrodynamics of moving bodies due to lack of background on advanced calculus. 
* Electrodynamics of both stationary and moving media can only be treated corrected in the context of  FRAME INDIFFERENT THEORY OF ELECTROMAGNETISM, which asserts that the laws of macroscobic electromagnetism as described by Maxwell’s Equations of stationary media are frame indifferent and recognize all frame indifferent axioms, postulates, principles and laws of other disciplines that constitute Newtonian Continuum Mechanics in Euclidean Space. This is another way to saying that Eulerian and Lagrangian frame observers are in full agreement with  
1) the nature (or state) of any physical quantity
2) the structural form and content of any physical law, and
3) the result of any measurement taken
in the two frames.


* The well known Hertzian formulation of electromagnetism where velocity vector of motion is a function of time, constitute a special case of the frame indifferent formulation
Polat frames this body of work within what he terms a '''frame indifferent theory of electromagnetism''', which he presents as an extension of the classical [[Hertzian electrodynamics|Hertz–Heaviside]] "electrodynamics of moving bodies." In this view, Maxwell's equations describe the electromagnetism of stationary media, and the effects of material motion are to be handled through convective (material and comoving) time derivatives within the framework of [[Newtonian mechanics|Newtonian]] [[continuum mechanics]] in Euclidean space, rather than through the [[Lorentz transformation]]s of [[special relativity]]. He argues that quantities such as space, time, velocity and acceleration are mathematical rather than physical quantities—reserving the term "physical quantity" for quantities associated with [[conservation law]]s such as mass, charge, momentum and energy—and on that basis rejects concepts such as [[length contraction]] and [[time dilation]] as physical effects.


Let me sum up:
These positions place Polat's foundational writings outside the [[scientific consensus|mainstream consensus]] of modern physics, which regards [[special relativity]] as extensively confirmed by experiment. In a series of essays he has set out arguments against the relativistic treatment of electromagnetism, contending that the introduction of convection currents into the Maxwell–Minkowski electrodynamics is inconsistent, that the [[twin paradox]] and related "aging" arguments show relativity to be internally paradoxical, and that classical Hertzian formulations already account for phenomena such as the magnetic field of a moving charge or a rotating charged disk ([[Rowland ring|Rowland's disk]]). These interpretations are not accepted by the physics mainstream and are presented here as a description of his views.


* THE INFLUENCE OF MOTION IN MACROSCOBIC ELECTROMAGNETISM IS PROPERLY DESCRIBED ONLY BY FRAME INDIFFERENT FORMULATION OF MAXWELL EQUATIONS. * THE ASSERTIONS OF SPECIAL OR GENERAL RELATIVITY CONTRADICT WITH ALL EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCES IN THE CONTEXT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING.  
==Selected publications==
* UNFORTUNATELY, EINSTEIN DID NOT PROPERLY UNDERSTAND AND THEREFORE MISINTERPRETED ASYMMETRY IN ELECTROMAGNETISM IN HIS SO CALLED ORIGINAL(!) 1905 PAPER. HE TURNED PHYSICS INTO A BLIEF SYSTEM WHICH WAS NOTHING BUT A WASTE OF TIME AND ENERGY FOR THE "MAIN STREAM" ("DISCIPLES") WHO WORSHIPPED HIM, AND SO MUCH PAIN AND TORTURE FOR THE RATIONAL "DISSIDENTS" WHO STOOD AGAINST THIS CHURCH.  
* Burak Polat, "On the Axiomatic Structure of Hertzian Electrodynamics", ''TWMS Journal of Applied and Engineering Mathematics'' Vol.2 No.1, pp.35–59 (2012).
* FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE THAT RELATIVITY IS CORRECT, IT SHOULD BE REMINDED THAT A THEORY CANNOT BE FALSIFIED BY INTODUCING ANOTHER THEORY. THIS IS NOT HOW THINGS WORK IN SCIENCE. IN THE CONTEXT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING WE ALREADY HAVE A THEORY THAT HAS BEEN WORKING PROPERLY SINCE 17TH CENTURY BASED ON NEWTONIAN MECHANICS. THEREFORE AS A FIRST STEP IN THE PROOF OF RELATIVITY  ONE MUST DEMONSTRATE THAT RELATIVISTIC FORMULATIONS YIELD MORE ACCURATE RESULTS BY DEVISING EXPERIMENTAL SET-UPS THAT ALL SIDES CONSENT ON THEIR ACCURACY. UNTIL THEN RELATIVITY HAS NO CHANCE TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY AND HAVE A PLACE IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING CURRICULUM.  
* Burak Polat, "Scattering by a Moving Circular Cylinder in Hertzian Electrodynamics", ''Selçuk Journal of Applied Mathematics'' Vol.13 No.1 (2012).
* TALKING ABOUT SERIOUS  ISSUES, A SYSTEM IN RECTILINEAR MOTION WITH CONSTANT VELOCITY DOES NOT CORRESPOND TO ANY ACTUAL PHYSICAL MECHANISM. THIS MEANS THAT A RELATIVIST CAN STUDY AND EXPLAIN EMF INDUCTION MECHANISM FOR A ROTATING CLOSED CIRCUIT UNDER A STATIC MAGNETIC FIELD, WHICH IS IN THE CURRICULUM OF SOPHOMORE ENGINEERING STUDENTS, ONLY IN THE CONTEXT OF GENERAL RELATIVITY, COMPULSORILY TAKING GRAVITATIONAL FORCES INTO ACCOUNT :-). IT IS NOT BY CHANCE THAT THE TOPICS OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING ARE BEYOND THE AREA OF INTEREST FOR GREAT MAJORITY OF RELATIVISTS.  
* Burak Polat, "Scattering by a Moving PEC Plane and a Dielectric Half-Space in Hertzian Electrodynamics", ''TWMS Journal of Applied and Engineering Mathematics'' Vol.2 No.2 pp.123–144 (2012).
* STILL, I AM NOT SAYING THAT SPECIAL OR GENERAL RELATIVITY CANNOT DESCRIBE ANY PHENOMENON IN ANY OTHER BRANCH OF PHYSICS (SUCH AS PARTICLE PHYSICS OR COSMOLOGY) AS LONG AS IT IS NOT COUPLED TO MACROSCOBIC ELECTROMAGNETISM. SUCH A DISCUSSION IS BEYOND MY BACKGROUND AND AREA OF STUDY.
* Burak Polat, "Plane Wave Scattering by a Moving PEC Half-Plane in Hertzian Electrodynamics", Abstract at The 41st PIERS (PhotonIcs & Electromagnetics Research Symposium), University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy, 2019.
*  HOWEVER, IF A RELATIVISTIC IMPROVEMENT OF FRAME INDIFFERENT ELECTROMAGNETICS WOULD EVER BE REQUIED ONE DAY, THE PROPER APPROACH IS TO CONSTRUCT A THEORY THAT YIELDS THE FRAME INDIFFERENT FIELD EQUATIONS EXACTLY IN THE NONRELATIVISTIC LIMITING CASES.
* Burak Polat and Ramazan Daşbaşı, "Validation of Hertzian Electromagnetism in a Rectangular Waveguide with Rotating PEC Termination", ''2019 PhotonIcs & Electromagnetics Research Symposium – Spring (PIERS-Spring)'', Rome, Italy, 2019, pp. 2850–2856. DOI: 10.1109/PIERS-Spring46901.2019.9017394
* Burak Polat and Ramazan Daşbaşı, "Plane Wave Reflection by a PEC Plane in Harmonic Motion", ''Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Electrical, Communication and Computer Engineering (ICECCE)'', Istanbul, Turkey, June 12–13, 2020.
* Burak Polat and Ramazan Daşbaşı, "On Conservation of Electromotive Force in Hertzian Electrodynamics", ''Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Electrical, Communication and Computer Engineering (ICECCE)'', Istanbul, Turkey, June 12–13, 2020.


In short,
==External links==
* '''Yes:''' General Invariance  '''No:''' General Covariance
* [http://www.aburakpolat.com Personal website]
*  '''Yes:''' Frame Indifference  '''No:''' Form Invariance
* [http://avesis.yildiz.edu.tr/abpolat/ Yıldız Technical University AVESİS profile]
*  '''Yes:''' Newtonian/Euclidean Space and Time  '''No:''' Minkowski Space-Time
* '''Yes:''' Frame Indifferent Electromagnetic Theory that Covers Hertz-Heaviside Electrdynamics  '''No:''' Maxwell-Minkowski Electrodynamics and General Relativity Theory
*  '''Yes:''' Principle of Material Frame Indifference  '''No:''' Principle of General Space-Time Covariance
For my contributions on the subject matter please refer to the list of related published papers available at
'''http://aburakpolat.com/research-papers-in-specific-areas/'''


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Latest revision as of 21:01, 20 July 2026

Burak Polat
Burak Polat
Born (1971-12-10) December 10, 1971 (age 54)
ResidenceIstanbul, Turkey
NationalityTurkish
Known forElectromagnetism, antennas, propagation, radiation, scattering, applied mathematics, mathematical physics
Scientific career
FieldsElectromagnetism, Electrical engineering, Applied mathematics
InstitutionsYıldız Technical University

Abdullah Burak Polat (born 10 December 1971), publishing as Burak Polat, is a Turkish electrical engineer and academic who works in the field of theoretical and applied electromagnetism. He is a professor in the Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering at Yıldız Technical University in Istanbul, where he directs the Radar Research Laboratory (RADAL). His research covers electromagnetic theory, wave propagation, antennas, scattering and the electrodynamics of moving bodies, and he is known within the dissident science community for his advocacy of "Hertzian" and "frame indifferent" formulations of electromagnetism as alternatives to the relativistic treatment of moving media.

Biography

Polat has held academic positions at a number of Turkish and international institutions over his career. He served as a research assistant in the mid-1990s, then held appointments at Istanbul University and, around 2000–2001, at the Technical University of Denmark (Danmarks Tekniske Universitet). He was an associate professor at Istanbul Technical University (2003–2005) before being appointed full professor, holding chairs successively at Bursa Uludağ University (2005–2010), Trakya University (2010–2013, where he also served as a dean), and Beykent University. He was head of department at Istanbul Gelişim University (2016–2017) and, since 2017, has been a professor at Yıldız Technical University.

His indexed academic output includes on the order of one hundred publications, with dozens indexed in the Web of Science and Scopus databases across the categories of electrical and electronic engineering and mathematical physics. His stated current research interests include radar theory and the application of electromagnetics in biology and medicine, in addition to remote sensing and antenna theory.

Scientific contributions

Much of Polat's technical work concerns electromagnetic scattering and the interaction of electromagnetic waves with bodies in motion. He has published analyses of plane-wave scattering by perfectly conducting (PEC) and dielectric bodies in uniform rectilinear, rotational and harmonic motion, and, with Ramazan Daşbaşı, work validating these formulations in problems such as a rectangular waveguide with a rotating PEC termination.

Polat frames this body of work within what he terms a frame indifferent theory of electromagnetism, which he presents as an extension of the classical Hertz–Heaviside "electrodynamics of moving bodies." In this view, Maxwell's equations describe the electromagnetism of stationary media, and the effects of material motion are to be handled through convective (material and comoving) time derivatives within the framework of Newtonian continuum mechanics in Euclidean space, rather than through the Lorentz transformations of special relativity. He argues that quantities such as space, time, velocity and acceleration are mathematical rather than physical quantities—reserving the term "physical quantity" for quantities associated with conservation laws such as mass, charge, momentum and energy—and on that basis rejects concepts such as length contraction and time dilation as physical effects.

These positions place Polat's foundational writings outside the mainstream consensus of modern physics, which regards special relativity as extensively confirmed by experiment. In a series of essays he has set out arguments against the relativistic treatment of electromagnetism, contending that the introduction of convection currents into the Maxwell–Minkowski electrodynamics is inconsistent, that the twin paradox and related "aging" arguments show relativity to be internally paradoxical, and that classical Hertzian formulations already account for phenomena such as the magnetic field of a moving charge or a rotating charged disk (Rowland's disk). These interpretations are not accepted by the physics mainstream and are presented here as a description of his views.

Selected publications

  • Burak Polat, "On the Axiomatic Structure of Hertzian Electrodynamics", TWMS Journal of Applied and Engineering Mathematics Vol.2 No.1, pp.35–59 (2012).
  • Burak Polat, "Scattering by a Moving Circular Cylinder in Hertzian Electrodynamics", Selçuk Journal of Applied Mathematics Vol.13 No.1 (2012).
  • Burak Polat, "Scattering by a Moving PEC Plane and a Dielectric Half-Space in Hertzian Electrodynamics", TWMS Journal of Applied and Engineering Mathematics Vol.2 No.2 pp.123–144 (2012).
  • Burak Polat, "Plane Wave Scattering by a Moving PEC Half-Plane in Hertzian Electrodynamics", Abstract at The 41st PIERS (PhotonIcs & Electromagnetics Research Symposium), University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy, 2019.
  • Burak Polat and Ramazan Daşbaşı, "Validation of Hertzian Electromagnetism in a Rectangular Waveguide with Rotating PEC Termination", 2019 PhotonIcs & Electromagnetics Research Symposium – Spring (PIERS-Spring), Rome, Italy, 2019, pp. 2850–2856. DOI: 10.1109/PIERS-Spring46901.2019.9017394
  • Burak Polat and Ramazan Daşbaşı, "Plane Wave Reflection by a PEC Plane in Harmonic Motion", Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Electrical, Communication and Computer Engineering (ICECCE), Istanbul, Turkey, June 12–13, 2020.
  • Burak Polat and Ramazan Daşbaşı, "On Conservation of Electromotive Force in Hertzian Electrodynamics", Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Electrical, Communication and Computer Engineering (ICECCE), Istanbul, Turkey, June 12–13, 2020.

External links

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