Einstein Vs. Newton on Space and Time
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Albert Einstein's theories shook the very foundation of reality, challenging the Newtonian view that space and time are absolute. Science historian David Kaiser and physicist Fay Dowker set the stage for this evolution of understanding about time in this clip from the 2009 World Science Festival program "Time Since Einstein." Watch the Full Program Here: https://youtu.be/d5G90ovdqmk Original Program Date: June 13, 2009 Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for all the latest from WSF. Visit our Website: http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/worldsciencefestival Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/WorldSciFest
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While not all matter is considered magnetic, all matter can be affected by magnetism due to the magnetic field around charged particles.
Interactions between magnetic fields would change the "friction" between those objects of those fields, hence affecting the forces acting upon those objects and our perception of that indicated time. -
If "time" is the rate of the flow of energy:
And "if" it's really true that the universe is expanding and also true that energy cannot be created nor destroyed:
Then the energy in the universe would be getting less and less dense and the rate of flow of energy could be slowing down.
Time itself could be slowing down on it's way to a "big freeze" but we wouldn't notice it because we are inside the system. From our perspective, everything would appear "normal" to us because everything would be slowing down.
If no energy flowed, we would say, "time stood still". -
Einsteinians worship Einstein's spacetime and at the same time declare that it does not exist and should be "retired":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U47kyV4TMnE
Nima Arkani-Hamed (06 : 11): "Almost all of us believe that space-time doesn't really exist, space-time is doomed and has to be replaced by some more primitive building blocks."
https://edge.org/response-detail/25477
What scientific idea is ready for retirement? Steve Giddings: "Spacetime. Physics has always been regarded as playing out on an underlying stage of space and time. Special relativity joined these into spacetime... [...] The apparent need to retire classical spacetime as a fundamental concept is profound..."
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727721.200-rethinking-einstein-the-end-of-spacetime.html
"Rethinking Einstein: The end of space-time [...] The stumbling block lies with their conflicting views of space and time. As seen by quantum theory, space and time are a static backdrop against which particles move. In Einstein's theories, by contrast, not only are space and time inextricably linked, but the resulting space-time is moulded by the bodies within it. [...] Something has to give in this tussle between general relativity and quantum mechanics, and the smart money says that it's relativity that will be the loser."
https://indico.cern.ch/event/375104/page/7290-general-public-session
On Saturday July 2nd, 2016, a session for the General Public entitled "Cordes & Maths" ("Mathematics of Superstrings") is organized at Collège de France, in collaboration with the séminaire Poincaré and the Clay Mathematics Institute. 16h45: Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS, Princeton): "Physics and Mathematics for the End of Spacetime"
Clearly the reality surpasses John Baez's 2008 prediction. Physics is not "deeply schizophrenic" - it is deeply oligophrenic:
https://edge.org/response-detail/11356
John Baez 2008: "One of the big problems in physics - perhaps the biggest! - is figuring out how our two current best theories fit together. On the one hand we have the Standard Model, which tries to explain all the forces except gravity, and takes quantum mechanics into account. On the other hand we have General Relativity, which tries to explain gravity, and does not take quantum mechanics into account. Both theories seem to be more or less on the right track - but until we somehow fit them together, or completely discard one or both, our picture of the world will be deeply schizophrenic." -
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I feel your comment is spot on, the ending is quite lovely, interesting and emotional
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