Re: Einstein swinging from a rope


Mark wrote:
Einstein's writings indicate that the gravitational field in essence is
non-different from the effect of swinging a box around in a circle on the
end of a rope. There is of course a hypothetical scientist standing on the
floor of the box in circular motion.

He equates gravity with inerta... OK


Any opinions? Please don't get too technical. I can appreciate space-time
theory, but I cannot understand such essentials as Maxwell's equations. I
haven't even figured out what a tensor is. I don't support contemporary
contentions that Einstein made mistakes that need to be corrected.

He was a poor inventor. So of his metaphysics is not well
developed or rigourous.


I suspect that the problem is that far too few people can really understand
what he said. The primary warning in space-time theory is that our
perspective is flawed due to the fact that we do not know what our relative
state is. We cannot trust what we perceive.

As for your 'Machian' illustration above, consider that the universe
can pull you in all directions. The mass of the earth upsets that
balance or isotropy.


The problem is that the high-energy state of the components of our reality,
electrons etc., renders them space-time phenomena.

Yup! That's why you'd rather have an antimatter garden than
a petrol engine. $$$
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/electric/elefor.html
That is, they are
grossly affecting the reality that we perceive. That with which we perceive
is also made of what we are perceiving. The mass-energy relationships of
the components of our reality cannot really be known from our perspective.

Just vist a modern medical imaging lab. PET scanners employ
the complete annhilation of e- e+ pairs. Doesn't that qualify
as a real everyday experience?

We only perceive the outcome.

Yep... unless you have good medical insurance where
you can send the lab's bill to.

The true nature of what we perceive to be an
electron may be very different.
How about:

~an imaginary point in space that describes
a center of interacting Coulomb forces~

http://teachers.web.cern.ch/teachers/archiv/HST2002/Bubblech/flight.html

Sue...

Mark

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