  This paper is a brief overview of a more extensive article recently published
in Found. Phys. Lett. [2]. Apparent disagreement with experiment as well as
internal inconsistencies found in the traditional analysis of relativistically
rotating frames/disks are summarized. As one example, a point p at 0 degrees on
the circumference of a rotating disk does not, according to the standard
theory, exist at the same moment in time as the same point p at 360 degrees.
This and other problems with the standard theory are completely resolved by a
novel analysis that directly addresses, apparently for the first time, the
non-time-orthogonal nature of rotating frames. Though ultimately consonant with
the special and general theories of relativity, due to non-time-orthogonality,
the analysis predicts several peculiar (i.e., not traditionally relativistic)
results. For example, the local circumferential speed of light is not invariant
(thereby agreeing with the Sagnac experiment), and no Lorentz contraction
exists along the disk rim. Other experimental results, including time dilation,
mass-energy dependence on speed, and what has heretofore been considered a
"spurious" signal in the most accurate Michelson-Morley experiment performed to
date, are accurately predicted. Further, the widely accepted postulate for the
equivalence of co-moving inertial and non-inertial rods, used liberally with
prior rotating frame analyses, is shown to be invalid for non-time-orthogonal
frames. This understanding of the ramifications of non-time-orthogonality
resolves paradoxes inherent in the traditional theory.
