A Scientific Adventure: Reflections on the Riddle of Relativity

This book is a description of the author’s studies and publications concerning Einstein’s special relativity theory over a forty-year period starting in 1971. In the early part of that period he collaborated with Professor Herbert Dingle in the latter’s campaign against the special theory, and after Dingle’s death in 1978 he continued to advance this program and to draw attention to the unsatisfactory situation whereby many arguments in favour of relativity are accepted without question by almost all scientists in spite of numerous contradictions. One of Dingle’s criticisms of the special theory is presented in an appendix, with a commentary.