Re: ABSOLUTE TRUTH ABOUT ABSOLUTE SPACETIME

From: Perfectly Innocent (perfectlyInnocent_at_as-if.com)
Date: 06/18/04 

Date: 18 Jun 2004 15:54:00 -0700

luke <funk420@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<pn86d05h9n89cdd49dtd9qca378tjshfkn@4ax.com>...
> On 18 Jun 2004 05:02:05 -0700, Perfectly Innocent wrote:
>
> >It's not known if the space we live in is absolute or not.
> >[...]
>
> Nor is it well defined what you are talking about. What is "absolute
> space"?

The featured quote of the first link answers your question:

"The Special Theory of Relativity, we teach our students, did away
with Absolute Space and Absolute Time, leaving us with no absolute
motion or rest, and also no absolute time order. General Relativity is
viewed as extending the "relativity of motion" applicable to curved
spacetimes, and General Relativity's most probable models of our
actual spacetimes (the big-bang models) appear to re-introduce a
privileged "cosmic" time order, and a definite sense of absolute rest.
In particular, some of the same kinds of effects whose *absence* led
to rejection of Newtonian absolute space are present in these models
of GTR." -Colloquium for 13-NOV-97 Abstract, UCR.

http://www.everythingimportant.org/viewtopic.php?p=1948#1948

The basic concepts defining what is absolute were derived and
illustrated in the remaining links:

http://cornell.mirror.aps.org/abstract/PRD/v8/i6/p1662_1
http://www.everythingimportant.org/viewtopic.php?t=79
http://www.everythingimportant.org/viewtopic.php?t=605
http://www.everythingimportant.org/relativity/simultaneity.htm

Eugene Shubert

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