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ZirkMan
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I try to get the gist of the Special and General theories of relativity for more than two years now. And I still don't understand if the geometrical explanation really explains or just describes what is physically going on when talking about all the relativistic effects (like gravitation, time dilation and space contraction).
This is what I mean by the difference between "explains" and "describe":
Are the theories of relativity physical theories, in a sense that the mechanism of the relativistic effects can be explained by energy transfer or interaction (in whatever form), like I believe any physical theory should and does?
A related question is if spacetime itself is a form of energy and for example gravitational attraction can be exlained as an energy interaction between objects and curved spacetime or the curved spacetime is just an abstraction that let us model the outcome of some other physical (in the defined sense) processes but is not the physical process itself that is responsible for the relativistics effects?
This is what I mean by the difference between "explains" and "describe":
Are the theories of relativity physical theories, in a sense that the mechanism of the relativistic effects can be explained by energy transfer or interaction (in whatever form), like I believe any physical theory should and does?
A related question is if spacetime itself is a form of energy and for example gravitational attraction can be exlained as an energy interaction between objects and curved spacetime or the curved spacetime is just an abstraction that let us model the outcome of some other physical (in the defined sense) processes but is not the physical process itself that is responsible for the relativistics effects?