Author(s)

Radovan Machotka

Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic.

The aim of this work is to show that the currently widely accepted geometrical model of space and time based on the works of Einstein and Minkowski is not unique. The work presents an alternative geometrical model of space and time, a model which, unlike the current one, is based solely on Euclidean geometry. In the new model, the pseudo-Euclidean spacetime is replaced with a specific subset of four-dimensional Euclidean space. The work shows that four-dimensional Euclidean space allows explanation of known relativistic effects that are now explained in pseudo-Euclidean spacetime by Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity (STR). It also shows simple geometric-kinematical nature of known relativistic phenomena and among others explains why we cannot travel backward in time. The new solution is named the Euclidean Model of Space and Time (EMST).

Special Theory of Relativity, Euclidean Space, Four-Dimensional Space, Time Dilation, Length Contraction

Machotka, R. (2018) Euclidean Model of Space and Time. Journal of Modern Physics, 9, 1215-1249. doi: 10.4236/jmp.2018.96073.