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Originally Posted by Rade
"Space and time become players in the evolving cosmos. They come alive...general relativity provides the choreography for an entwined cosmic dance of space, time, matter, and energy" (B. Green, 2004, The fabric of the Cosmos:Space, time, and the texture of reality. Knopf, NY).
Doctordick, perhaps you have derived an alternative view of reality than Einstein concerning "time", but to say that Einstein thinking about relativity theory leads to a "static" view of reality is not accurate.
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Rade, do you understand the meaning of the word “obfuscate”? In Einstein's picture, “The fabric of the Cosmos:Space, time, and the texture of reality” is as “dynamic” as a canned reel of movie film. The fact that examination of that film in sequence (i.e., a projection) gives you an impression of a dynamic occurrence has absolutely nothing to do with the physical nature of the film itself. The actual nature of the film is static and “calling the distance along the film “time” does not make the film into a dynamic entity. All the physicists are doing is obfuscating the fact that their space-time picture is static (there is no mechanism for change) and that is exactly why there is a conflict between quantum and relativity theory and the difficulty goes right up through to include general relativity.
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Originally Posted by Rade
And, although a revolutionary idea, special relativity only shows that space and time do not have independent existences, they are not absolute, but form a fabric of spacetime that is relative.
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It “shows” no such thing. That is purely an assumption embedded in the theory itself.
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Originally Posted by Essay
23 long pages; that's why I responded here (much less to read).
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That makes it quite clear that you do not understand what I am talking about. The central relationship being discussed is
and if you do not know what the symbols in that expression stand for and why that equation must be true, there is no comprehension of what I am talking about. If you have any interest in what I am saying, start with
post #33 and follow my conversation with Anssi. That would only be a small fraction of the posts on that thread. If that is too much for you to read, don't worry about it.
is a mere facet of that representation.
Have fun -- Dick
