Having just completed a new edition of my book some
comments on it seems appropriate.
The original manuscript of my book was actually
finished in 2005 (by coincidence the year when all the Einstein centenary
books/articles appeared). For various reasons the first edition (paperback) did
not come out until 2008 and the electronic edition followed somewhat later. In
succeeding years, some minor corrections, including typos, were made, once to
the print edition and twice to the electronic edition.
By 2010 I was recasting some of my ideas into
short essay form for the web and it gradually became apparent that some
sections of my book would benefit from revision: some arguments could be
simplified or expressed more clearly and in a few cases some arguments could be
cut entirely. So I began a major revision in the fall of 2011 and finished it
in April of 2012. The current, and hopefully the last, editions are: 3rd
for the print and 4th for the electronic. The two are identical in
content.
The new edition is longer by over 10,000 words.
Discussion of the Elitzur-Vaidman interferometer is new and I tried to flesh
out my explanation of potential mass. Photon nonlocality gets much more
attention and I expanded upon my explanation for the constant velocity of
light. I also gave more prominence to the concept of pure entities (photon,
inertial mass) that extend in one dimension and progress in the other. Working
on the revision has strengthened my conviction that physicists have
misunderstood the nature of occurring energy by treating it as a quantity and
regarding it as a mere annex to the house they built for existing mass.
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