PSI Blog 20230605 Einstein’s Errors: Objectification of Motion
Without this error the Big
Bang Theory would have been dead in the water.
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In theoretical physics objectification is the consideration of motion as an object. Humans have objectified motion throughout history. Today, objectification is one of the primary roadblocks to understanding Infinite Universe Theory. Of the two fundamental phenomena, matter often comes to mind before motion. You can see matter, but you cannot see motion as a thing apart from matter. As we have seen, Einstein’s relativity reeks with this old-fashioned tendency to objectify motion.[1] His “particle” theory of light has a historic parallel with the “caloric fluid” theory of heat. Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794),[2] the father of chemistry, imagined that “caloric fluid” traveled from object-to-object as a material entity. When you touched a burning ember, the caloric fluid supposedly flowed into your finger. Of course, what was once considered a “thing” is now correctly considered “motion,” the vibration of things. In other words, heat is motion, not matter. If you wait too long to remove your finger the vibrations in the ember stimulate vibration in your finger, causing your discomfort and serious chemical transformations in your skin. Strictly speaking, heat does not exist; it occurs. In this case, the only thing that exists is the vibrating molecule. The molecule takes up three dimensions, while its motion does not.
Physicists have long abandoned the notion that heat
is matter, although they have not done so for light. Today, few would ask
whether heat had mass, since even today’s most regressive physicists must
regard heat as motion. Likewise, waves do not have mass, although the medium
through which they travel does.
Even when Einstein made odious mistakes in math,
indeterminists looked the other way. In evaluating his derivation of Special
Relativity Theory, we traced his objectification of time to a Type mistake.[3] Essentially,
he did a little mathematical somersault in which he first properly derived l
(length) from ct (velocity multiplied by time is always distance).
Unfortunately, by a little sleight of hand, he then used l, length, as a
replacement for t, time—two different Types forbidden in proper mathematics.
That is how time got to be a dimension. In a way, this has been sanctified in
our conventional use of the term “light year,” which is the distance light travels
in a year. This is an extremely valuable “distance” measurement, but it does
not make time a distance.
The General Theory of Relativity reflects this
tendency to objectify motion on the grand scale. Time is motion. Time has no
dimensions and is not “part” of the universe, although time occurs within the
universe. Of course, the concept of “space-time” purports to “combine” space
and time. However, only things can be “combined.” “Time,” having neither three
dimensions nor existence, cannot be combined with anything. True, in our heads
we can combine concepts, ideas, stories, and equations about real things and
real motions, but that does not give them dimensions.
“Space” exists, but “space-time” does not.
Nonetheless, cosmogonists assume 4-dimensional space-time actually exists. As
mentioned previously, this belief is required for the expanding universe
hypothesis. They misinterpret the cosmological redshift as indication galaxies
are receding from us. With the currently estimated 20 trillion galaxies in the
observed universe it would be highly unlikely we would be at the center of the
expansion of a finite, 3-dimensional universe. So, we must believe in Einstein’s
four dimensions even though that is impossible to imagine. Without the
mathematical fabrication of space-time, the Big Bang Theory would no longer exist.
Why has Einstein’s objectification of motion been
so popular and enduring? I hinted at the reasons for that in my explanation of
the Fourth Assumption of Science, inseparability
(Just as there is no motion without matter, so there is no matter without
motion). That is what makes physics “physical.” Still, the belief in motion without matter
has been well-established ever since the first humans tried to understand the
wind in the willows. That must have been rather frightening. They could not
have known that air consisted of unseen particles now called nitrogen and
oxygen. Here was a “thing” that was not a thing, like the proverbial ghost that
was a thing, but not a thing. The ghost was capable of traveling through walls.
It supposedly had three dimensions and location, but certainly was not
material. The unseen, unseeable causes of matterless motions were given
names—with a god for this and a god for that.
The indeterministic vestiges of the idea of
matterless motion are nearly as dominant now as they were in 1905 when
relativity took the stage.[4]
Matterless motion always has been a mainstay of religion, from holy ghosts, to
souls, to gods. Most folks talk about such “things” as if they existed. Thus,
it was not surprising that Einstein and many others would objectify time to
great applause. Modern physics is founded, not on the assumption of inseparability,
but on its indeterministic opposite. Einstein and followers never understood
this. Make no mistake about it. Time cannot dilate and space-time does not
exist. Many of the paradoxes and absurdities in modern physics and cosmogony
are traceable to this single most critical philosophical error. We can do better,
but only if we give up the idea of matterless motion.
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[1]
Borchardt, Glenn, 2011, Einstein's most important philosophical error, in Volk,
Greg, Proceedings of the Natural Philosophy Alliance, 18th Conference of the
NPA, 6-9 July, 2011: College Park, MD, Natural Philosophy Alliance, Mt. Airy,
MD, v. 8, p. 64-68 [10.13140/RG.2.1.3436.0407].
[2]
Note that Newton thought light to be a particle as well.
[3]
Bryant, Steven, and Borchardt, Glenn, 2011, Failure of the relativistic
hypercone derivation, in Volk, Greg, Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the
NPA, 6-9 July: College Park, MD, Natural Philosophy Alliance, Mt. Airy, MD, v.
8, p. 99-101 [10.13140/RG.2.1.1404.8406].
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