Greetings all, This coming Monday, October 20 James McCaughan from USyd will give a paper "RELATIVITY WITHOUT RELATIVITY:REALISM’S ANSWER TO IDEALISM PART II: The Special Theory (final); The General Theory". The paper will be in the common room in the philosophy department, 1.00-2.30 (35 minute paper followed by questions)
Abstract Part I commenced the elimination of relativity and its postulates as the foundation of mechanics from Einstein’s Special Relativity (SR). The extension of mechanics to embrace light speed proceeds via Maxwell’s equations and the Doppler shift for electromagnetic waves without need for postulates or axioms. Bodies in motion give the spaces in which they are embedded real, not apparent, net contraction in the direction of motion, which in turn contracts the bodies. There is no effect on clock rates; shorter elapsed times follow net contracted space moved through. This constitutes the Special Theory of Space (STS). Part II presents new arguments confirming STS and applies it to the Sagnac effect. The examination of the General Theory commences with Einstein’s astonishing 1911 artefact-based paper, which introduces the Principle of Equivalence, deduces gravitational red-shift and bending of starlight about the sun. The Principle of Equivalence viz. acceleration is equivalent to being in a static gravitational field has formal significance only and is false in reality. Consequently, mathematics can’t distinguish the counterfeit from the genuine. The real equivalence is the gravitational potential energy to kinetic energy: the net space contraction because of speed (STS) is equivalent to the net space contraction because of gravitational potential. This is the basis of the General Theory of Space (GTS), which is STS incorporating gravity and which replaces the General Theory of Relativity (GR). An unexpected synthesis with impetus unites the whole of mechanics. The idea that there is such a thing in nature as space-time is repudiated; it is a mental construct along with the rest of relativity. Only realism leads to genuine knowledge about nature. See you there... Dr. Kristie Miller Australian Research Council Post-doctoral Fellow School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry and The Centre for Time The University of Sydney Sydney, Australia Room 411, A18 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: (work) 02 9036 9663 Ph: (mobile) 0432 275 286 http://homepage.mac.com/centre.for.time/KristieMiller/Kristie/Home%20Page.html _______________________________________________ SydPhil mailing list [email protected] List Info: http://lists.arts.usyd.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/sydphil NEW LIST ARCHIVE: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
