The existence of both ( and ) depends upon the context created by our thoughts, our language, our theories, and our interaction (experimentation) with our external world.
Felix Alba-Juez
To believe in nothing is as ridiculous as to believe in everything. Reason and factual evidence may convert a belief into knowledge.
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Truth is not as pompous and romantic as myth.. But it has the immeasurable value of being the Truth.
Subjectivity is strange to Science, while Relativity is an objective part of it.
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If Relativity Theory kills our deepest convictions, why not start by finding out why we believed in them for millennia?
After some cogitation, it is difficult not to agree with Herman Bondi (1919 - 2005), who in his book 'Relativity and Common Sense' says: .. The surprising thing, surely, is that molecules in a gas behave so much as billiard balls, not that electrons behave so little like billiard balls.
The notion of Local Inertial Frame is crucial to understanding Nature and, in particular, General Relativity. Notwithstanding, very few popular science books (not even textbooks) emphasize enough its fundamental character.
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The past and the future are not a collection of instants shared by all space, but a collection of events that correspond to a possible relation of causal order with the present event.
Such is how Science makes progress: not destroying the past, but learning from it, and building on it.
The difference between Lorentz's Transformation in Lorentz's theory and Lorentz's Transformation in Einstein's Special Relativity is not mathematical but ontological and epistemological and, being so, it was to be expected the emergence of historians, scientists, and philosophers that, not having understood in depth the philosophical content and transcendence of the theory, would minimize Einstein's contribution.
The present is not an instant shared by all space, but an event, i.e. An instant at a place in space.
It is not the reverence for words, but for their that determines our deepness of comprehension of a given assertion about Nature.
Swiftness is the enemy of comprehension.
There is no problem more difficult to solve than that created by ourselves.
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It is curious that the human mind could blindly accept an infinite speed but had reservations to accept a finite one, simply because it was too large!
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