Excerpt from Classical Physics, Vol. 3
High-velocity mechanics can be constructed on the same axiomatical grounds as low-velocity mechanics but the tenth axiom must also be taken into account.
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According to our conceptions, space and time are absolute categories. They have to be perceived in the way as the ordinary man does, and as Newton introduced them in the simplest and clearest way (see IIA, §2).
In our century, however, on the grounds of many experiments with light beams and particles moving at high speeds, the situation arose that the old conceptions for space and time were considered as corresponding only approximately to reality, i.e., when the velocities of the particles are low enough with respect to light velocity. A new theory, whose fathers are Einstein and Minkowski, allowed the explanation of all high-velocity experiments, but this theory led to tragic results: the sound absolute Newtonian conceptions for space and time have been replaced by new ones, generally called "relative," which contradict the healthy human mind drastically.
During the whole last century the scientists all over the world fought desperately to save the simple Newtonian conceptions but the struggle was in vain - all experiments supported Einstein's theory, so that since many years such physicists who continue to believe in Newton are treated as simple-minded people who cannot understand certain things which other people have already perfectly understood.
In the present part III of our book (and in parts IV and V) we show that a non-contradictory Absolute Space-Time Theory can be constructed, which explains all crucial experiments with light beams and fast moving particles performed up to now. We show that this is the old Newtonian theory, in which only some small corrections concerning the light kinematic effects of second order in v/c (see IIA, p. 20) have to be introduced, i.e., the Newton-Aether Model for light propagation has to be substituted by the Marinov-Aether Model postulated in our tenth axiom. We show, however, that not only the photons have an "aether" character of propagation but also any massive particle (electron, neutron). As a matter of fact, the "aether" character of propagation of the particles is due to their attachment to the mass of the whole world. Thus, we think, it is inexpedient to speak about an "aether" and further on we shall speak simply about Newton and Marinov Models Of Light Propagation.
The absolute space-time theory saves us not only from the tormenting necessity to accept Lorentz contractions, twin paradoxes, and fantastic velocity addition laws (let us emphasize that mankind has lost millions of working hours trying to "understand" these paradoxes), but it also explains experiments for which the theory of relativity gives wrong predictions.
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