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Sane version (from 6 July 2005) written by Christopher Thomas and modified by CSTAR, Pjacobi, and others in response to comments on Talk:Autodynamics. I gave up editing this after it became more stress than it was worth. --Christopher Thomas 20:52, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

Autodynamics is a replacement for special relativity and general relativity proposed by Ricardo Carezani in the early 1940s.

The primary claim of Autodynamics is that the equations of the Lorentz transformation are incorrectly formulated, which as a result causes special relativity and general relativity to be invalid. The effect of the revised equations proposed by Autodynamics is to cause particle mass to decrease with particle velocity, being exchanged with kinetic energy (with mass being zero and kinetic energy being equal to the rest mass at C). This exchange between mass and energy is the proposed mechanism underlying most of the derived conclusions of Autodynamics.

Secondary claims of Autodynamics are the nonexistence of the neutrino, the existence of additional particles that have not been observed by mainstream physicists (including the "picograviton" and the "electromuon"), and the existence of additional decay modes for muons and interaction modes for energetic atomic nuclei. The proponents of Autodynamics claim that experimental evidence supports these predictions. In particular, they cite a 1964 experiment by William W. Buechner and Robert J. Van de Graaff which failed to observe any "missing energy" when a high-energy electron beam stopped in a calorimeter; however, this result is also consistent with mainstream physics, which does not predict neutrino emission in an electromagnetic process. Proponents also claim that all published observations of the neutrino are due to experimental errors.

However, as quoted in Wired magazine, according to a professor at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, most scientists consider Autodynamics little more than a "crackpot theory". Indeed, the absence of mainstream scientific literature on Autodynamics, and the abscence of skeptic literature aiming to refute Autodynamics, indicates that most scientists do not consider Autodynamics at all.

Autodynamics references

Ricardo Carezani, Autodynamics: Fundamental Basis for a New Relativistic Mechanics, ISBN 0-9665533-0-6
Ricardo Carezani, The Muon Decay muon+ -> e+ e+ e+ and Autodynamics [1], Physics Essays: Volume 5, no. 1, March 1992
- Web version of this document.
Ricardo L. Carezani, Nucleus-Nucleus Collision (And Autodynamics), expected to be published in Physics Essays
- Draft version of this document, available online.
http://wired-vig.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,20663,00.html Aforementioned Wired about Autodynamics.