Einstein has not lost
Two RU physicists tell int'l seminar
Albert Einstein has not lost even if the sub-atomic particles called neutrinos travel faster than light, two former Rajshahi University physicists, who claimed to have completed the theory of special relativity by deriving new equations, said at an international seminar yesterday.
"Neutrinos have won the race with light but Einstein has not lost", Dr M Osman Gani Talukder, one of the physicists, said in his paper.
On September 23, 2011, Cern, the world's largest physics lab, published its experiment results showing that neutrino particles move 60 billionths of a second faster than what they would have done if travelling at the speed of light, says a BBC report.
A dilemma surfaced as much of the century-old modern physics depend on the idea that nothing can exceed the speed of light, which was laid out in part by Einstein in his theory of special relativity.
Dr Talukder and Dr Mushfiq Ahmad said they have solved the dilemma by adopting a 21-equation non-Einsteinian approach and by completing Einstein's three-equation special relativity theory with the addition of 18 new equations.
The two physicists presented two papers entitled "Homogeneous number system and correspondence between infinity and invariant under addition" and "Neutrino travelling faster than light and Einsteinian and Non-Einsteinian views of relativity" on the concluding day of the two-day seminar yesterday. On the first day, they presented eight papers, out of a total of 10, describing their ideas.
RU Vice Chancellor Prof M Abdus Sobhan said in the concluding session that the university would publish the minutes of the seminar in a journal within a week and post them on the Internet for review by scientists worldwide.
Hartmut Baerwolff, professor at Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Germany, chaired the concluding session.
Rajshahi University organised the international seminar on "special relativity" in association with The Daily Star at RU Senate Bhaban. Channel i was the media partner.
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