STRENGTHS and WEAKNESSES of the THEORY OF RELATIVITY

WEAKNESSES (edited)

1 - All reference frames are equally valid. (if it's possible the observation and measurement).

2 - The curvature of space-time.

3 - It's possible the time travel.

4 - The gravity force doesn't exist.

5 - The unification of all forces (EM, G, SF, WF) in a single equation.

Un saludo cordial.
Aside from 4, which is neither a pro nor con, all of those are strengths. 1 leads to energy, momentum and angular momentum conservation. 2 leads to a mathematical formalism practically identical to the quantum forces. 3 doesn't do any harm. 5 is what physicists are after, though it isn't actually realised within GR.

The weaknesses you list seem to always be things you don't like, rather than actual weaknesses. You are not the yardstick by which reality is measured.
 
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Aside from 4, which is neither a pro nor con, all of those are strengths. 1 leads to energy, momentum and angular momentum conservation. 2 leads to a mathematical formalism practically identical to the quantum forces. 3 doesn't do any harm. 5 is what physicists are after, though it isn't actually realised within GR.

WEAKNESSES (new edition)
Note: I changed the order

1 - All reference frames are equally valid. (strength)

2 - The curvature of space-time. (weakness)

3 - The gravity force doesn't exist. (weakness)

4 - It's possible the time travel. (no effect)

5 - The unification of all forces (EM, G, SF, WF) in a single equation. (searching)
 
Thanks Alpha, my purpose is just to understand better the Relativity and stimulate reflection.
Part of getting to understand relativity, or anything really, is finding things out about it before you start dismissing it. As you've shown, many of the 'problems' you claim exist in relativity are artefacts of either you not understanding it or because you have a pre-existing bias.

In a video (in Spanish) Carl Sagan says that the curvature of space-time is a dimension that is created (5D).
I would like to know your opinion about it.

URL of the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKhOhHWP6Lc
I don't speak Spanish so can't say anything about what Sagan does or doesn't say. However, curvature does not add dimensions. That isn't what general relativity is about, something you should have found out about already. Suppose there's 3 dimensions of space and 1 of time, giving 1+3 dimensional space-time. If such a space has zero curvature, it's just flat, then the metric is $$\eta = \left( \begin{array}{cccc} -1 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 \end{array} \right)$$, ie the space-time interval is $$ds^{2} = \eta_{\mu\nu}dx^{\mu}dx^{\nu} = \left( \begin{array}{cccc} dt & dx^{1} & dx^{2} & dx^{3} \end{array}\right) \left( \begin{array}{cccc} -1 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 \end{array} \right) \left( \begin{array}{cccc} dt \\ dx^{1} \\ dx^{2} \\ dx^{3} \end{array}\right) = -dt^{2} + (dx^{1})^{2} + (dx^{2})^{2} + (dx^{3})^{2} $$. Curved space-time is then just allowing the entries of $$\eta$$ to become general functions, which together must satisfy the Einstein Field Equations. For example, the Schwarzchild black hole metric is $$\eta \to g = \left( \begin{array}{cccc} -\left(1 - \frac{2M}{r}\right) & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 1 - \frac{2M}{r} & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & r^{2} & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & r^{2}\sin^{2}\theta \end{array} \right)$$. Curved space-time (though it technically has zero Riemannian curvature) but still in 4 dimensions.

Curved space-time isn't space-time which curves into extra dimensions, the pictures seen of a ball creating a 'pit' in space-time are metaphorical, they aren't accurate representations of what GR says about gravity. Curved space-time is when lengths of rulers start stretching and shrinking. A clock on a satellite will tick faster than a clock on the ground, the 'ruler of time' has been warped.

2 - The curvature of space-time. (weakness)
Why is that a weakness? In fact it means you can put gravity on the same mathematical footing as the electroweak and strong forces (gauge theories). In quantum field theory the field strengths are actually curvatures of an abstract space known as a gauge bundle. In general relativity we have the Riemannian curvature tensor which is, unsurprisingly, the curvature of an abstract space known as a tangent bundle.

3 - The gravity force doesn't exist. (weakness)
This is more of a philosophical interpretation.
 
Alpha wrote:
Curved space-time isn't space-time which curves into extra dimensions, the pictures seen of a ball creating a 'pit' in space-time are metaphorical, they aren't accurate representations of what GR says about gravity. Curved space-time is when lengths of rulers start stretching and shrinking. A clock on a satellite will tick faster than a clock on the ground, the 'ruler of time' has been warped.

By extension ...

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RJBeery wrote:
Wait, you guys ridicule someone for a few dozen posts and then as soon as I contribute something you chuck the thread? Deja vu!.

...by further extension.

Where's your contribution? What's on your mind?

Deja-vu!!!
 
I was using humor to make the point that posting a random picture doesn't elucidate anything. Didn't mean to offend, I found it funny.
 
RJBeery wrote:
I was using humor to make the point that posting a random picture doesn't elucidate anything. Didn't mean to offend, I found it funny.

Graphic metaphors are a way to understand better the concepts and principles that govern nature.

To have good sense of humor is excellent, but sometimes may reflect that we take things as a joke.
 
THE BECOMING AS DIMENSION

A dimension is the shortest path that tells us how to move from one point to another. Dimensions can be: straight lines and curved lines (geodesies) in space and the succession of changes (becoming) in duration. The dimensions have direction and sense. Space is 3D. The dimension of duration is becoming, where the direction and sense melt at a flowing point (present).

Characteristics of becoming:

1 - The becoming is a continuous succession of points.

2 - In time we go through all the points.

3 - To move from one point to another we should expect arrive.

4 - We know that a point is past because we remember it.

5 - The time interval is intuited.

The origin of the time coordinate can't be zero, a letter should be used, for example c = change. Zero represents nothing, the static. By this the origing point in the spacetime graphics must be (c, o).

Becoming: c ---------------------->

Time is the extension of the phenomena, is represented by the length of a line or just a worth: 10 sec.
 
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A dimension is the shortest path that tells us how to move from one point to another

No, it's not. What you are describing is a geodesic. A dimension is a degree of freedom, meaning it's a possible direction for movement. Left-right, forward-back, up-down, are the three familiar dimensions. There may well be others that are too small to detect.
 
No, it's not. What you are describing is a geodesic. A dimension is a degree of freedom, meaning it's a possible direction for movement. Left-right, forward-back, up-down, are the three familiar dimensions. There may well be others that are too small to detect.

But, in a geodesic a straight movement is performed in two dimensions. There is a change of direction. It's a curved movement. Or not?
 
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The mind conceives or intuits becoming ( c ) as an interval (time) by analogy with the dimensions of space.
 
ENERGY IS RELEASED AND TRANSFORMED

Matter is neither created nor released, only transformed. The energy is not created, but is released and transformed. The matter is transformed into matter and energy into energy. Matter retains or stores energy, but it isn't the energy itself. It's like when we open a faucet. Water is the energy and the pipe matter.

The strong nuclear force holds the nucleus of every atom and it groups protons and neutrons. The bombing of the nucleus by a neutron releases energy. The weak nuclear force allows protons become neutron emitting a radiation in the process. The atomic bomb explosion releases a large amount of destructive energy.

In the nuclear power plant the heat produced by the reactor is used to boil water. The water vapor is used to drive a turbine which is connected to a generator.

In the electric power there is a charge moving through a conductor. Electrons are released. Also in the magnetism energy is released by the movement of electrons.

Chemical energy of a battery is released and converted into electrical energy by the action of an electrolyte.

The heavenly bodies release their gravitational energy into space attracting all nearby bodies. Gravity is a power in state always waving and never becomes particle. It doesn't have charge, because of this is not blindable.

It isn't matter what becomes energy, energy is released. The conversion of energy into matter is impossible.
 
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How nuclear energy works

[video=youtube;VJfIbBDR3e8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJfIbBDR3e8[/video]
 
THEORY OF MOTHER MACROGALAXY

We have the relation of: BEING, CAUSE AND EFFECT.

What it was the first BEING?

For believers: God.

For somebody: nothing, no space and no time.

For us: The Mother Macrogalaxy gave birth to all other galaxies. This galaxy only consisted of stars. Due to the big bang the Mother Macrogalaxy expanded and emerged the other galaxies with stars and planets.

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THE BECOMING-TIME EXISTS

They are half right who claim that time does not exist, because as an abstract entity is transreal, does not exist in reality. First let's look at the definition of the becoming concept: the becoming is the continuous succession of changes or phenomena that are delimited by a start and an end. All physical changes have a beginning, a becoming and an end. Time is the interval between two moments or cuts (interruptions) arising from happening.

As we see time is linked inextricably to the becoming which is real and palpable, so becoming-time duality exists independently of our minds. Time taken alone is just an idea or an abstract concept.
When we go to the movies, the movie have a beginning, a becoming and an end. The becoming-time is so obvious and evident that doesn't requires proof or demonstration because we experience it every moment or time.

The duration is the mathematical representation (magnitude) of the becoming-time obtained from a regular rhythm or periodic phenomenon in which we identify the beginning, the becoming and the end.

It's said that the big bang originated the matter, energy, space and time. That before the Big Bang there was a highly dense singularity. The big bang is considered as time zero, or rather duration zero, because zero has no place in the becoming-time. If there was a singular point there was the becoming-time. In duration zero there is becoming, but is adopted as a convention. For example, 10 minutes are counted from zero, which is the first cut, the beginning of the interval. But zero is not the absence of becoming, It's a utility.

Whether creation or explosion we have this very useful dual variable allows us to sort the facts and events in sequence: the becoming-time.
 
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The mind conceives or intuits becoming ( c ) as an interval (time) by analogy with the dimensions of space.
 
IMAGES OF PHILOCHRONY

These images are about my conception of time, becoming-time duality and mind. The nature of time. La Filocronia y la Dualidad devenir-tiempo.

[video=youtube;-Rx7dYSKh5A]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Rx7dYSKh5A[/video]

Now you can visit my blog PHILOCHRONY: THE NATURE OF TIME AND SPACE

http://philochrony-time.blogspot.com/
 
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