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Concerning, the physic giant, Einstein, we are familiar with General Relativity, GR, and Special Relativity, SR. During the swift study of these two fundamental physical papers I determined to simplify GR to consider gravitation in common. And to regard SR about light in general.
Einstein was born in 1879, and held the Nobel price in physics in 1921 for his theories about the photoelectric effect.
If, we shall try to examine, in a broad-spectrum, the ideas and thoughts Einstein had about GR and SR?
Concerning Special Relativity:
We will start with, SR, Special Relativity, which argues about light in common. How did Einstein think? If reading these papers we can notice that he is theorizing about observers, relatively moving or not moving, versus, relatively moving or standing still objects. He uses, what he calls – mollusks – time references of imaginary clocks for to argue about, variants of information transport or, commonly, what any observer actually does see.
“And when thinking about light at 16 years of age, he imagined what it would be like to chase, catch up with, and ride on a light beam. When he started thinking more seriously about light, he questioned the thinking of his day – that it travelled through a medium dubbed “Aether”, and that its speed was determined by how fast its source moved through this mysterious substance.
Einstein realized that the speed of light – 300 000 km per second – is constant whether it comes from a moving source such as a speeding car’s headlights or an unmoving source such as a ceiling light.” And more – Einstein did figure out that when the vast space was exchanged with air, gas, glass, water or any other – non-space medium – light did speed down depending on the medium it travelled through.
How could Einstein have been reasoning later? In the end of the 19th century physics it was well known that, for example, sound did travel as waves in air as medium. Exactly as a stone dropped in water – made waves of circles spreading out in the medium of water. How did, for example, starlight travel to earth? Like stones dropped in water? Maybe. Was there a medium in which starlight did expand? The Aether was at the end of this century a rather accepted physical idea. Probably Einstein was neutral for the Aether, though it was a most logical idea that Aether was present in space. Especially when it at this time was confirmed that light does travel in an even pace. Fast – but travelling in an established speed. Coherent epoch measurements established light speed in vacuum to round 300 million m/s or 300 000 km per second. Naturally, Einstein must have seen resemblance with sound waves or circles in tranquil waters. Giving both, sound speed, and liquid propagation, specific determined values, depending on medium. That the medium of Aether was present in space giving light specific propagation in universe was at late 19th or early 20th century a most natural and logical explanation.
It’s so natural and obvious that even today the Aether idea has some believers even though every attempt to confirm Aether all are giving negative results.
It’s about here today’s physic stands – we have not come any further. This is a most embarrassing novel scientific situation. We have also to be aware of that Special Relativity got its name because it does not include wide range gravity in its equations.
The famous E=mc^2 is one of the SR equations. And determines that mass and energy are equal. Nuclear tests, for example, have confirmed this formula for to be the situation concerning mass versus energy. It’s really astonishing how Einstein got his equations so accurate.
One main situation, though, is not quite in line with his formulas. The photon – a single light particle – is established by this equation, and other formulas, to have zero mass. However, if the photon actually has zero mass, is one of today’s main challenges for the top research scientific community. It’s here Einstein’s theories begin to limit with the latest observations concerning relative high energy elements of physics. Einstein is right in Newton scale and energies. But when continuing beyond relative physics concerning the electron energy, Einstein begins to fade in ideas. This is the novel Einstein – quantum mechanics discrepancy.
We here have to be aware that Newton physics defines as relativistic low energy physics and quantum mechanics is seen as relativistic high energy physics. That Einstein did introduce relativistic physics as a concept gave science the leap, which it still has today.
Today’s SR stands about where Einstein left it. At least concerning constructive and proved ideas. That data are updated is based on the colossal scientific technological development since the beginning of the 20th century.
We have petabytes and petabytes and more petabytes of space data gathered the last century. But we have no profound idea after Einstein. A rather confusing situation since about mid 20th century is at hand.
Also, when I found that book of Stephen Hawking lying on a table in 1990, I was in a layman manner aware about that physics had stalled for a considerable time. This rather strange situation really puzzled my mind – as that book lying on that table. Were there also others, which had the same awareness of novel physics? The road lied before me…
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