Science, including Einstein's relativity, without time, distance or speed
In 1710 philosopher George Berkeley gave good reasons for not believing what scientists say about the world, but to believe their own eyes instead. This blog shows he was right.
The sorcerer of 1710 During my career as a physicist and teacher of physics, I scarcely realised there was a scientific paradigm to change. I just got on with it without thinking much about what ‘it’ is, In that, I don’t think I was different from my colleagues. When, in my retirement, I read the … Continue reading How Einstein changed the scientific paradigm without realising it
Traditional science ended in 1905 when Einstein’s relativity theory (but not Einstein) discovered (a) that clocks do not measure time, (b) that rulers do not measure distance, and (c) that speed should be redefined as the sine of an angle and the speed of light as the sine of a right angle. Those radical changes … Continue reading The End of Traditional Science
Science, including Einstein's relativity, without time, distance or speed 