Misleading Interpretations of the Wheeler School on General Relativity

and

the Damage to Education in MIT Open Course Phys. 8.033

C. Y. Lo

Applied and Pure Research Institute

7 Taggart Drive, Unit E, Nashua, NH 03060

March 2011

Abstract

General relativity was difficult to understand, and only recently it is discovered as not yet self-consistent. Understandably, due to its accurate predictions, misinterpretations were created. Among them, the dominant misinterpretations of the Wheeler School are due to invalidity in mathematics and also inadequacy in physics. However, because many make the same errors, they are adapted together with Einstein’s assumptions. In fact, they are responsible for the errors in the press release of the 1993 Nobel Committee in Physics who was unaware of the experimental supports to Einstein’s equivalence principle. To illustrate the damages of such misleading interpretations and errors to education, the MIT Course Phys. 8.033 is chosen since it is accessible to the public and the influence of the Wheeler School to MIT is a relatively recent event. The rectifications of errors in general relativity make clear the necessity of unification between gravitation and electromagnetism, and enable other theoretical progresses in physics.