Product Description
This book proposes a new commonsense philosophical paradigm for modern physics which solves the paradoxes of light-speed, gravitation, dark matter and black holes using rigorous mathematical proof.
About the Author
Anthony D Osborne gained his Ph.D at City University, London for his thesis, 'Gravitation and Dynamical Systems'. For more than twenty-five years, he has taught Relativity to Final Year students at Keele University, Staffordshire, where he is Senior Lecturer in Mathematics. His student textbook, 'Complex Variables and their Applications', was published by Addison Wesley Longman in 1999. His collaboration with Viv Pope began in 1982, and their first joint paper on the Normal Realist approach to Relativity appeared in 1987. N.Vivian (Viv) Pope worked for almost twenty years in the telecommunications industry, leaving to become a mature-age student at the University of Wales, Bangor. Graduating in the Philosophy of Science, he then became a lecturer at the Burton-on-Trent Further Education College, Staffordshire where he taught Liberal Studies and Philosophy. He was also tutor/counsellor for the Open University. He took early retirement from these posts in order to concentrate on his researches into the philosophical foundations of modern physics. He has published numerous papers and books on the subject, both on his own and in collaboration with Anthony Osborne.