Special Theory of Relativity

Two years ago I pointed out1 what appears to be an inconsistency in the kinematical part of Einstein's special theory of relativity. I repeated this in a slightly different form in a volume published in December last2. No comment has been made on the former publication, either spontaneously or in response to individual requests, and in none of the many reviews of the latter has even an oblique attention to the criticism appeared. In view of its profound and far-reaching consequences if it is valid there can be no justification for leaving a twice-published criticism without a published refutation if it is not.