CONTENTS
1. Introduction
2. Theories and concepts of
aether from ancient philosophers to contemporary viewpoints
3.
Analysis of the elementary results of the special theory of
relativity
4. Postulates of the aether theory
5. Elementary
results of the aether theory
6. The Michelson-Morley
experiment
7. The OPERA experiment - neutrino anomaly
8.
Relativity of simultaneity
9. The Fizeau experiment
10. The
interpretation of the Michelson-Morley experiment in case of the
existence of dialectrics in the branches of the interferometer
11.
The aberration of light
12. The Hoek experiment
13. The Doppler
effect
14. Redshift and blueshift. Change of the frequency of the
quantum system
15. The Ives-Stilwell experiment
16. The
application of the Doppler effect in the analysis of the
Michelson-Morley experiment
17. Experimental testing of the
special theory of relativity using laser spectroscopy of fast lithium
ions. Determination of the absolute velocity of the Earth
18.
Experimental testing of the transversal Doppler effect using
Moessbauer spectroscopy
19. The temperature dependent Pound-Rebka
experiment.
20. The atomic clocks experiment on a rotating
platform. The application of the aether theory within the system of
general positioning (GPS)
21. The Pioneer anomaly
22. Henri
Poincaré and the theory of relativity
23. The transformation of
mechanical quantities from the standpoint of the aether theory
24.
Applying equations to transform mechanical quantities on the grounds
of the aether theory
25. The analysis of electrodynamics
26.
Space and time from the standpoint of Newtonian mechanics
27. The
analysis of the general theory of relativity. The explanation for
certain experiments based on the application of optics and
electrodynamics.
28. The movement of light in noninertial
reference systems. The Sagnac effect
29. Using femtosecond lasers
for experimental testing of the invariance of the speed of light
