Topic: Философи търсят смисъл в релативисткото скъсяване на дължините
http://iramis.cea.fr/radiolyse/Phocea/V … st=761#cei
Harvey Brown (Oxford University) "Why do rods contract in motion?"
Einstein's special theory of relativity predicts, correctly, that rigid bodies contract when in motion, (though Einstein was not the first to predict it). But what is the explanation of this phenomenon? Einstein increasingly disliked his original explanation, based on the relativity principle and the light postulate. What should take its place?
http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=6603
"Harvey Brown thinks that most philosophers are confused about relativity. Most centrally, he thinks they're confused about the relativistic effects of length contraction and time dilation.....According to (what Brown alleges is) the dominant view among substantivalists, the geometrical structure of Minkowski spacetime plays some role in explaining why moving rods shrink and why moving clocks run slow. Brown rejects this view. He asserts, instead, that in order to explain why moving rods shrink we must appeal to the dynamical laws governing the forces that hold the parts of the rod together. The geometry of Minkowski spacetime plays no role in this explanation.....He thinks that good answers to these questions say something about the way in which the forces holding the parts of the rod together depend on velocity of the rod. Only that is a story of what causes the particles to get closer together, and so what causes the rod to shrink."
Ключовата идея на Brown е че "the forces holding the parts of the rod together depend on velocity of the rod" и значи скъсяването си е чисто физическо, т.е. the particles PHYSICALLY get closer together. Всички такива еретични идеи в Айнщайниана обаче задължително се съпровождат от crimestop:
http://www.liferesearchuniversal.com/19 … #seventeen
George Orwell: "Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction. Crimestop, in short, means protective stupidity."
В случая Brown stops short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of the following dangerous thought:
Опасна мисъл: Length contraction, as deduced from Lorentz transforms, is RECIPROCAL, that is, if the particles constituting the rod PHYSICALLY get closer together, so do the particles constituting the observer.
Развита, опасната мисъл би довела до заключението че в релативисткото скъсяване на дължините има точно толкова смисъл колкото и в твърдението "Крокодилът е повече дълъг отколкото зелен".
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