Over 100 hundred years ago Einstein published ‘On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies.’ This revolutionary theory changed the thinking of science, space and time. Recent developments, however, indicate that there could be intrinsic errors in this theory. Special Relativity, Albert Einstein’s landmark theory may be incompatible with the basic equations upon which this momentous theory is built.

New observations made by many scientists and engineers appear to contradict the great German scientist’s ideas. Apparently there are implicit contradictions present within Relativity’s foundational ideas, documents and equations. One individual has even pointed that quotations from the 1905 document and Einstein’s contemporaries as well as interpretations of the Relativity equations clearly and concisely describe a confused and obviously erroneous theory. It is time therefore, for science to update its thinking on this theory with a comprehensive analysis of the history leading up to, during and after that revolutionary year of Special Relativity.

As over 100 years have now passed from the day of the original release of Special Relativity, a comprehensive study of the original assumptions, documents and concepts which led to the acceptance of this theory is timely and necessary. Students globally are taught the ideas of Special Relativity; however, in this instruction, there is no critical review of Relativity, its foundational document or the assumptions directly inscribed therein by Albert Einstein. For those who have no direct knowledge of these controversies, Relativity Theory consists of two main theories: General Relativity and Special Relativity.

First, Dr. Einstein formulated Special Relativity from the work of Fitzgerald, Lorentz and Voigt as well as others. In this venture into a brave new world, Einstein furthered several mind-bending and disputable concepts that are accepted as fact in the modern world. The contraction of space, time slowing down on moving systems and the mass energy equivalence formulated in the equation E=mc2. It was this last expression that was the shining star for the new theories in addition to the two postulates: 1) light speed is a constant for all observers and 2) physical laws are the same from every perspective. Another predicted effect was an increase in mass as an object speeds up. Readers should be cautioned that there have been many ‘alleged’ validations of the ideas of special relativity.

Particle accelerators have sped particles to extremely high velocities that apparently provide validity to Einstein and his theory as well as to Lorentz, Poincare, Fitzgerald and the many others who worked on this idea. Despite all the overwhelming evidence however, there are doubts in the scientific community that has never totally given up the comfortable world of Newton. This can be seen in that they refer to Newton’s ‘Law’ of Gravitation whilst Special Relativity (SR) and General Relativity (GR) are relegated to the status of ‘theory of.’ This is a polite way of indicating suspicion that something is not sound in this theoretical construction.

In his later more comprehensive work called the Theory of General Relativity (1916), Einstein proposed a major re-thinking of cosmology. He conceived of a space time continuum that is curved by mass; in other words, planets, stars, galaxies and other stellar objects cause a curvature of space time. The movement of these objects is determined by the aforementioned curvature. As a result of these ideas, our understanding of geometry, math, physics, science and the universe would never be the same. However, some scientists are reporting that speed of light is not constant from different experimental observations. One has even reported errors in the fundamental equations. If so, this would require a major rethinking of the known cosmological models and assumptions of modern physics.

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