Critical assessment of the YARK theory

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Dated: 3 March 2018

This resulted from my involvement with a question where a purported experimental deviation from the predictions of special or general relativity on the transverse Doppler effect in a rotating system was discussed, the measurement employing the Mössbauer effect. Ironically, the paper by Kündig (Ref. [10] in the pdf file below) claimed to have found agreement with relativity. (Only special relativity is in fact needed.) It was only through a reanalysis of the experimental data performed by some of the authors of the YARK theory (which is mainly due to Yarman) that the discrepancy between theory and experiment arose. My current interpretation is that most likely the reanalysis was wrong and the original paper right. There may be other reasons for the problem. In any case, the YARK theory falls far behind general relativity in terms of sophistication, predictive power and, in my opinion, correctness. I discuss it in some detail, because the claim to obtain an alternative to general relativity based on energy conservation and quantum mechanics turns out to be wrong. General relativity satisfies energy conservation as well as the YARK theory, so the latter is not distinguished by it, and the quantum mechanical relations used can be as easily obtained from classical mechanics. Moreover, they are misapplied.

Critical assessment of the YARK theory, 03.03.2018

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