SRT Test Theories Compared to Emission Theory

摘要

A 'Test Theory' for Special Relativity Theory (SRT) is a generalization of the Lorentz transforms using additional parameters. One can analyze experiments using the Test Theory instead of SRT, and fit the parame-ters of the Test Theory to the experimental results. If the fitted parameter values differ significantly from the values corresponding to SRT, then the experiment is inconsistent with SRT. But more normally, such fits can show how well a given experiment confirms or disagrees with SRT, and what is its experimental accuracy. This gives a general and tractable method of analysis that can be common to multiple experiments. In the following paper we will compare a Test Theory to Emission Theory.