What is the primary concept between absoluteness and relativity?

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The discussion revolves around the concepts of absoluteness and relativity, exploring their interpretations, origins, and mutual connections. Participants examine whether one can cause the other and consider the implications of these concepts in physics, particularly in relation to speed and the behavior of photons.

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  • Some participants propose that understanding the relationship between absoluteness and relativity requires examining whether relativity can cause absoluteness and vice versa.
  • Michael discusses the idea that the speed of a photon is absolute and questions how mass influences relative speed, suggesting that mass is the reason for relativity.
  • Another participant introduces the notion that relative and absolute concepts can be complementary, using the duality of a photon as an example.
  • One participant speculates about the existence of a reality that transcends both absoluteness and relativity, questioning the limits of our current theoretical tools in describing nature.
  • Another viewpoint suggests that there may be an absoluteness that is unattainable due to human limitations, which necessitates the reliance on relativity.

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Participants express multiple competing views regarding the relationship between absoluteness and relativity, and the discussion remains unresolved with no consensus reached.

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Participants highlight the difficulty in measuring absolute values in experimental physics and the potential limitations of relativity as a tool for understanding reality.

Michael F. Dmitriyev
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We live in the world where these concepts has the various interpretations. Anyone can have an own understanding about their origin and mutual connections. But, at least, one question remains open - what of these is a primary?

Michael
 
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To receive the answer on this question it is necessary to find out two thing:
The first
- Whether can relativity cause an absoluteness.
The second
-Whether can absoluteness cause a relativity:
To be more physics than philosophy, we’ll examine these concepts at a concrete physical embodiment.
In the best way the SPEED has approaches and we come back to the theory of relativity, but on the other hand.
In this case we’ll try to find out
1) Whether can a relative speed cause an absolute one
2). Whether can an absolute speed cause a relative one.
What is the answer ?

Michael
 
A photon as a carrier of force has the maximal speed by definition –nothing can move faster then its carrier, since the speed of carrier of force is absolute.
As the concept of speed means movement of some observable object we should take into account presence or absence of mass at this object. Mass defines relative speed which will have an object as a result of application of force. Hence mass is the reason of relativity.
What the reason is?

Michael
 
ok..., what does that all mean in English.
tx
 
bozo the clown said:
ok..., what does that all mean in English.
tx
You are the first who don’t understand me. My regrets.

Michael
 
Michael F. Dmitriyev said:
A photon as a carrier of force has the maximal speed by definition –nothing can move faster then its carrier, since the speed of carrier of force is absolute.
As the concept of speed means movement of some observable object we should take into account presence or absence of mass at this object. Mass defines relative speed which will have an object as a result of application of force. Hence mass is the reason of relativity.
What the reason is?
It seems strange, but the reason is the equivalence of speed of carrier of force (photon) and of internal speed of mass.
Two absolute speed at their interaction does cause the relative speed of objects.
 
Dear Michael F. Dmitriyev,

The relative and the absolute can be also complementary concepts.

for example:

In an excluded-middle reasoning two opposites are simultaneously contradicting each other, and the result is no middle.

In an included-middle reasoning two opposites are simultaneously preventing/defining each other, and the result is a middle.

The best known example is the duality of a photon, which has both a wave and a particle properties that preventing (the measurement of its accurate place prevents the accurate information about its momentum, and vise versa) and defining (one property cannot exist without the other) each other.

For example, please see this picture: http://www.geocities.com/complementarytheory/comp.jpg

As you see the two black profiles and the white vase are clearly preventing/defining each other.



Maybe my paper http://www.geocities.com/complementarytheory/No-Naive-Math.pdf is somehow related to the subject of your thread.

I'll be glad to know your opinion, thank you.


Lama
 
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I know it might sound strange, but might it be imaginable, that there is something else despite absoluteness and relativity?
Maybe "reality" is somewhere in between (or beyond).
We are experiencing, that something like absolute values are very hard, if not impossible, to measure in experimental physics.
Though the concept of relativity adds more possibilites of calculation, you still need absolute values of something to start with.
So what do we get?
Obviously, our concept of (and need for?) absoluteness is not a physical reality.
Even relativity, as precise as it is, might not be the ultimate tool to describe "reality" (what ever that may be...).
So what is the next step? Will there ever be a theoretical tool to deal with the "chaotic" behaviour nature confronts us with?
I don't know.
Or have we already reached the limit of the universe's calculability?
Ideas and comments welcome...
 
or maybe there is an absoluteness that cannot be achieved due to our limited existence, forcing us to uphold what we know and observe. which is relativity.
 
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Lama said:
Dear Michael F. Dmitriyev,

The relative and the absolute can be also complementary concepts.

for example:

In an excluded-middle reasoning two opposites are simultaneously contradicting each other, and the result is no middle.

In an included-middle reasoning two opposites are simultaneously preventing/defining each other, and the result is a middle.

The best known example is the duality of a photon, which has both a wave and a particle properties that preventing (the measurement of its accurate place prevents the accurate information about its momentum, and vise versa) and defining (one property cannot exist without the other) each other.

For example, please see this picture: http://www.geocities.com/complementarytheory/comp.jpg

As you see the two black profiles and the white vase are clearly preventing/defining each other.



Maybe my paper http://www.geocities.com/complementarytheory/No-Naive-Math.pdf is somehow related to the subject of your thread.

I'll be glad to know your opinion, thank you.


Lama
Dear Doron,
Take a look at my thread “Dimensions”, please.
Here my view at this subject. Your Real-Line has some intersection with my thought. Does exist any math for description of this static 0-D and 1-D (in your paper) as the dynamic process? In my opinion, it should resemble programming of cyclic processes..


Michael
 

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