scholarly journals The Mystery of the Lorentz Transform: A Reconstruction and Its Implications for Einstein’s Theories of Relativity and cosmology.

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 174-184
Author(s):  
Abdul Malek

The Lorentz Transformation (LT) is an arbitrary and poorly conceived mathematical tool designed to make Maxwell’s electromagnetism conform to Galilean relativity, which formed the basis of classical mechanics and physics. A strange combination of this transform with an axiomatic assumption by Albert Einstein that the velocity of light c is an absolute and universal constant has led to an idealist, geometrical and phenomenological view of the universe, that is at variance with objective reality. This conundrum that has lasted for more than hundred years has led to rampant mysticism and has impaired the development of positive knowledge of the universe. The present reconstruction of LT shows that the gamma term, which fueled mysticism in physics and cosmology is, on the contrary, a natural outcome of the subjective geometrical rendition of the speed of light and the idealist unification of abstract space and time into a 4D “spacetime” manifold; by Minkowski and Einstein. Only a materialist dialectical perspective of space and time can rid physics of all mysticism arising out of LT; from the quantum to the cosmic.

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (03) ◽  
pp. 1640002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Oldofredi ◽  
Dustin Lazarovici ◽  
Dirk-André Deckert ◽  
Michael Esfeld

By means of the examples of classical and Bohmian quantum mechanics, we illustrate the well-known ideas of Boltzmann as to how one gets from laws defined for the universe as a whole the dynamical relations describing the evolution of subsystems. We explain how probabilities enter into this process, what quantum and classical probabilities have in common and where exactly their difference lies.


Author(s):  
Татьяна Юрьевна Сем

Статья посвящена мифологическому образу космического оленя в традиционной культуре тунгусо-маньчжуров. В работе рассматриваются материалы фольклора, шаманства, промысловых и календарных ритуалов, а также искусства. Впервые систематизированы материалы по всем тунгусо-маньчжурским народам. Образ космического оленя в фольклоре эвенов имеет наиболее близкие аналогии с амурскими народами, которые представляют его с рогами до небес. Он сохранился в сказочном фольклоре с мифологическими и эпическими элементами. В эвенском мифе образ оленя имеет космические масштабы: из тела его происходит земля и всё живущее на ней. У народов Амура образ оленя нашел отражение в космогенезе, отделении неба от земли. Своеобразие сюжета космической охоты характеризует общесибирскую мифологию, относящуюся к ранней истории. В ней наиболее ярко проявляется мотив смены старого и нового солнца, хода времени, смены времен года, календарь тунгусо-маньчжуров. В результате анализа автор пришел к выводу, что олень в тунгусо-маньчжурской традиции моделирует пространство и время Вселенной, характеризует образ солнца и хода времени. Космический олень является архетипичным символом культуры тунгусо-маньчжуров, сохранившим свое значение до настоящего времени в художественной культуре This article is devoted to the mythological image of cosmic deer in traditional Tungus-Manchu culture. It examines materials of folklore, shamanism, trade and calendar rituals as well as art and for the first time systematizes materials from all of the Tungus-Manchu peoples. The image of cosmic deer in the folklore of the Evens has its closest analogy in that of the Amur peoples, reflected in the image of a deer with horns reaching up to the sky. This image is preserved in fairytales with mythological and epic elements. In the Even myth, the image of a deer is on a cosmic scale, as the cosmos issues from its body. Among the Amur peoples, the image of a deer is also related to cosmogenesis, to the separation of the earth from the sky. The plot of a cosmic hunt is reflected in pan-Siberian mythology, dating back to the Bronze Age. It clearly illustrates the motif of the change of the old and new sun, the passage of time, the change of seasons, the Tungus-Manchu calendar. The author comes to the conclusion that deer in the Tungus-Manchu tradition, in depicting the image of the sun and the passage of time, model the space and time of the Universe. The cosmic deer is an archetypal symbol of Tungus-Manchu culture, which has retained its significance in artistic culture to the present day.


2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 80-87
Author(s):  
Toji Omonovich Norov ◽  

The universe, the space that make up their basis planets in it, their creation, the main essence of their creation, form, composition, meaning, movements, interactions, their influence on human life and activities, the role of man in the universe and in life on Earth, life, the criteria of activity and processes occurring in time and space have long been of interest to humanity. One of the main problems in the history of philosophy is the question of space and time. This problem was defined in different ways in the great schools of thought by thinkers of different periods. One of these great thinkers is Alisher Navoi. Navoi's works, along with other socio-philosophical themes, uniquely express and analyze the problems of the firmament and time. Its main feature is that it is based on the divine (pantheistic) religion, Islam, its holy book, the Koran and other theological sources, as well as on the secrets of nature and the Universe, the main miracle of Allah - human intelligence, the power of enlightenment, they are the key revealing all these secrets.


2019 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 233-243
Author(s):  
Mihaela Denisia Liușnea

In the homage cancellation of the Romanian village, they are proposed to look at the perspectives on certain intellectuals on certain aspects. The village, realized ubiquitously in the collective and individual histories of the Romanians, is established in Orthodox churches, conditioned by the Holy Spirit, represents first, webelieve, the hierarchy of values, it relates the endless space to the universe and while it is limited to eternity: the God’s space and time. The Romanian peasant is not in a hurry, he is not pessimistic, he does not lie in despair, because he lives fulfilling God’s Great and “unchanging“ Plan – history. The peasant must create the thought life and glorify God, who takes care of His presence. Thus, during the work, it is marked by Christian holidays of honor to Him, the Mother of God and the Saints. The conclusion is that the issue of space and time in the Romanian village cannot be addressed from the position of God is present, growth is determinant for dimension (length and time), height, depth of depth that characterizes the two concepts. The relativism of today’s world can encompass the Romanian soul.


Author(s):  
Vlatko Vedral

In Chapter 9 we discussed the idea of a universal Turing machine. This machine is capable of simulating any other machine given sufficient time and energy. For example, we discussed how your fridge microprocessor could be programmed to run Microsoft Windows, then we described Moore’s logic, that computers are becoming faster and smaller. Therefore, one day, a single atom may be able to simulate fully what a present day PC can do. This leads us to the fascinating possibility that every little constituent of our Universe may be able to simulate any other, given enough time and energy. The Universe therefore consists of a great number of little universal quantum computers. But this surely makes the Universe itself the largest quantum computer. So how powerful is our largest quantum computer? How many bits, how many computational steps? What is the total amount of information that the computer can hold? Since our view is that everything in reality is composed of information, it would be useful to know how much information there is in total and whether this total amount is growing or shrinking. The Second Law already tells us that the physical entropy in the Universe is always increasing. Since physical entropy has the same form as Shannon’s information, the Second Law also tells us that the information content of the Universe can only ever increase too. But what does this mean for us? If we consider our objective to be a full understanding of the Universe then we have to accept that the finish line is always moving further and further away from us. We define our reality through the laws and principles that we establish from the information that we gather. Quantum mechanics, for example, gives us a very different reality to what classical mechanics told us. In the Stone Age, the caveman’s perception of reality and what was possible was also markedly different from what Newton would have understood. In this way we process information from the Universe to create our reality. We can think of the Universe as a large balloon, within which there is a smaller balloon, our reality.


Author(s):  
Matthew Y. Heimburger

The Big Bang theory is a scientific model of the universe that posits a state of dense, centralized matter before the current, observable expansion of the universe in one giant explosion. While ‘the Big Bang’ was a phrase first used somewhat facetiously by British astronomer Fred Hoyle in 1949, it rested on earlier theories and observations by George Lamaitre, Albert Einstein, and Edwin Hubble. The implications of Big Bang theory have been far-reaching. For some, the Big Bang’s suggestion of a ‘beginning of time’ lent itself to familiar religious teleology. For others, it provided a rigid, mechanistic model of the physical world, which in turn affected ideas in the social sciences and humanities. This is not to say that Big Bang theory was a ‘grand unifying theory’—even in the 1920s, the rather precise predictions of Einstein’s theories of relativity conflicted with the conclusions of Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle and quantum mechanics. Still, the idea that the physical world exists due to the violent expansion (and subsequent contraction) of matter suggests a rather small place for humanity in the larger scheme of things. There is little room or need for free will in such a system—at least when it comes to matters of large-scale significance. Today, the Big Bang often stands as a euphemism for debates over God and human determinism in the universe, and lends itself to philosophic traditions such as nihilism and existentialism.


Nuncius ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
GIUSEPPE BRUZZANITI

Abstract<title> SUMMARY </title>The foundamental problems related to the physical structure of space and time are today motivated by problems that arise from other scientific theories, for instance: relativistic theories, quantum electrodynamics, elementary particles.One of principal purposes of this historical-critical paper is to examine a typical problem related to the structure of time i.e. its continuity. This problem arises from all attempts to discretize space and time through the introduction of a new universal constant besides h and c.The three sections of this paper reflect the different problems considerated: in the first are ana.yzed same attempts, arisen in the quantum fields theory between 1940 and 1960, directed to the introduction of a universal constant with the dimension of a lenght. In the second, the historical dynamics of problems that conducted to the introduction of a universal constant with the dimension of a time is examinated. In the third, finally, the most important epistemological implications of this problems are considerated.


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