Relativity and Cosmology

Einstein Versus the Physical Review on Gravitational Waves and the Principle of Causality

Authors: C. Y. Lo
Comments: recovered from sciprint.org

Einstein & Rosen discovered the non-existence of wave solutions. However, the Physical Review found that the singulari-ties they discovered are removable. Since the editorial accepted wave solutions with unbounded amplitude, Einstein�s require-ment on weak gravity was implicitly rejected in disagreement with general relativity. On the other hand, from the Hulse-Taylor binary pulsars experiment, it has been found that the nonexistence of gravitational wave solution is due to a violation of the principle of causality. It will be shown that such a violation can be seen directly from the cylindrical �waves� of Einstein and Rosen. The root of such an error lasting more than half a century is due to that the editorial of Physical Review and others did not understand Einstein�s equivalence principle and incorrectly regarded it as essentially the same as Pauli�s version. Conse-quently, they do not understand a basic principle in science, the principle of causality adequately. Moreover, the rejection of Einstein�s requirement on weak gravity was based on the invalid interim �covariance principle�. Currently, misinterpretations of Einstein�s equivalence principle and the acceptance of the invalid �covariance principle�, in effect, have developed into efforts conspired to give deceptive predictions.
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