Dear Vladimir,
This is a request for you to rate my essay in the FQXi contest. (I discussed your essay earlier with you).
I am writing this to you because you, as a Philosopher/ Physicist, are better able to understand about the Foundational Problems of Physics than Theoretical Physicists.
As a philosopher you are better equipped to understand, how the problems have originated in Newtonian conceptual framework in the formative stage and how these have spread and morphed into further problems in SRT and QM. People now a days are mostly talking about the morphed derivatives, when the solution is to be found in tackling the Primordial Problems. Also, you will understand my discussion philosophically about Einstein's search for the 'Right Way' patterned on TD, (notwithstanding his own relativity theory).
First I will brief you about my essay and then I will explain why I need your help.
The gist of my essay: http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/1549
1. It identifies the PRIMORDIAL Foundational Problems in Newtonian Mechanics (NM) that runs through ALL BRANCHES OF PHYSICS. (Please see the short attachment "Primordial Foundational Problems").
2. It eliminates the problematic concept of POINT-MASS (common to NM, QM, SRT) to allow internal structure for a particle. This in turn enables to resolve the other interconnected problems.
3. The result: By taking these two steps, ALL THE EQUATIONS OF SRT are DYNAMICALLY derived by identifying the trignometric relations within the energy-momentum equation, and by restoring Galileo's principle of relativity. (I beg you to have a glance at the attachment - "Geometrodynamics of Energy" to verify this claim). - See also comment by L.B Crowell below.
4. This achievement will establish that I have not just treated these problems at the level a speculative discussion as in other essays, but that the problems discussed are real by virtue of their solution leading to the unification of NM and SRT (finding an equation which is equally valid for slow and very fast motions).
Why I need your help:
1. Although the Topic of the FQXi Essay Contest is about "Which Basic Assumptions are Wrong", you would find that even most of the top 35 essays do not cover these. They either cover one or none.
2. My essay, http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/1549, "A Treatise of Foundational Problems of Physics", covers the whole group of PRIMORDIAL foundational errors in the Newtonian Mechanics, which have been inherited by QM and SRT.
Yet my essay still stands at around the 135th position, (see the Comment attached by the fellow essayist Ben Dribus) with no chances of entering the final...... unless you give it the best rating it deserves.
So please give some of your valuable time to read and rate my essay. Also, I would appreciate if you would pass this on to others.
Best regards,
Viraj Fernando
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Here is the impartial comment made by Ben Dribus (essayist in no 2 position): "One thing I will say is that it appears as if you made an honest effort to answer the question posed by the essay contest rather than just writing down your favorite ideas about physics. You will notice that I made a similar effort..... I am not sure why it was rated so low, but my impression is that many authors automatically rate other essays low to boost their own standing".
Here's the comment made by LB Crowell (essayist at no. 20 position): "The calculations I just looked at and they seem alright. ...... Your procedure appears to be some euclideanization of relativity. At the end you arrive at equations which are the same as special relativity".Attachment #1: Primordial_Foundational_Problems.docAttachment #2: GEOMETRODYNAMICS_OF_ENERGY.doc