The reality of our “mathematical worlds”

Is there such a thing as a mathematical world? All forms of mathematics are abstract by definition. However scientists feel that it can be used to extract, by quantification the underlying essence of a physical environment and thereby eliminate any dependence on real world objects with which it might originally have been connected. Many of … Read more

Light and the physicality of space

Albert Einstein in the address “Aether and the theory of Relativity” delivered on May 5th 1920 at the University of Leyden Germany indicated that The General Theory of Relativity predicts, “space is endowed with physical qualities”. “Recapitulating, we may say that according to the General Theory of Relativity space is endowed with physical qualities; in … Read more

The “Relativity” of a four dimensional Newtonian universe

We have shown throughout this blog that there would be many theoretical advantages to defining the universe in terms of four *spatial* dimensions instead of four dimensional space- time. One is that it would allow for the theoretical derivation of the relativistic of properties of three-dimensional space and the inertial properties of energy/mass in terms of … Read more