Thanks Eckard,
Attahced please also find a copy of this post which is easier to read!
I'm glad at least some of my words are making sense now.
I enjoy your questions as they reflect the spirit we need to get back to--what does the math *physically* mean?
On p. 226 of Einstein's Ideas and Opinions, Einstein writes, "the supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction. There is no logical path to these laws; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience, can reach them."
MDT presents a new universal elementary law from which Einstein's Principle of Relativity can be built by pure deduction. Begin with a universe with four dimensions x1, x2, x3, x4 where the fourth dimension is expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions at the rate of c, dx4/dt=ic, and all of relativity naturally arises, as does quantum mechanics' nonlocality and entanglement, wave-particle duality, space-time duality, mass-energy duality, entropy, and time and all its arrows and asymmetries.
There is a reason why the anti-theory regimes have banned the discussion of Einstein/Galileo/Planck/Bohr/Dirac's philosophies.
Einstein continues, "In this methodological uncertainty, one might suppose that there were any number of possible systems of theoretical physics all equally well justified; and this opinion is no doubt correct, theoretically (this is what the landscaper/multiversers/parallel universers/E8ers/E9ers capitalize on). But the development of physics has shown that at any given moment, out of all conceivable constructions, a single one has always proved itself superior to all the rest." And that would be MDT.
Einstein continues, "The longing to hold this pre-etablished harmony is the source of the inexhaustible patience and perseverance with which Planck has devoted himself, as we see, to the most general problems of our science, refusing to let himself be diverted to more grateful and more easily attained ends (such as writing coffee-table physics books or gaining tenure as a string theorist or groupthink regimeist, or running a gossip column/blog/administering a crackpot index)."
Einstein continues, "The state of mind which enables a man do to this kind of work is akin to that of a religious worshipper or the lover; the daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or program, but straight from the heart."
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Yes! Instead of following the questions asked by Ministry of Curiosity, or dictated from on high--instead of serving a groupthink regime for tenure and titles, Planck did it because he *loved* it--Planck, like every true artist, poet, and scientist, did it *straight from the heart."
I'm pretty sure this song was written about Max Planck:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ebtjgK8NNU&feature=related
Einstein continues, "There he sits, our beloved Planck, and smiles inside himself at nmy shildish playing-about with the lantern of Diogenes. Our affection for him needs no thread-bare explanation. May the love of science continue to illumine his path in the future and lead him to the solution of the most important problem in present-day physics, which he has himself posed and done so much to solve. May he succeed in uniting quantum theory with electrodynamics and mechanics and mechanics in a single logical system."--Einstein--Ideas & Opinions, pps. 226-227
I just found a cool little book called "Once Upon Einstein" written by Thibault Damour.
In it he quotes Einstein's reflections on mere math.
In 1922, Einstein gave a lecture in France, in which he stated, "One must still confront the equations with reality and know what fact the mathematics hides."
Contrast this spirit to the modern-day anti-theorists who use math to hide facts of reality--facts such as curving, bending spacetime, facts such as time and all its arrows and assymetries, facts such as free will and change and entropy, and facts such as quantum nonlocality and entanglement. MDT, with its simple postulate and equation, embraces all these facts of physical reality, weaving change into the fundamental fabric of spacetime, for the first time in the history of relativity. Indeed, MDT sinks one deeper than Einstein's Principle of Relativity, as MDT exposes the deeper mechanism that causes Einstein's principle of Relativity--MDT: the fourth dimension is expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions at the rate of c.
Einstein continues in Damour's book, "One may very well possess the mathematical apparatus of relativity and understand nothing of the theory itself."
A French jounralist reported in Damour's book, "An interesting profession of faith from the mouth of he who many consider as a quinessential abstractor, and one may clearly distinguish the gulf that separates him from some of our mathematicians."
"Books on physics are full of complicated mathematical formulae. But thought and ideas, not formulae, are the beginning of every physical theory." --Einstein/Infeld, The Evolution of Physics
MDT, by focusing on *physical* reality, presents a physical theory, based on a fundamental universal invariant, which unifies phenomena from across the spectrum, while underlying Einstein's Principle of Relativity.
Too, too many well-funded physicists spend their days fine-tuning their snarky crackpot indexe, and playing around with meaningless math as opposed to reading the Great Books and Classics.
EINSTEIN ON CLASSIC LITERATURE: FROM EINSTEIN'S IDEAS AND OPINIONS. p. 64-65
Einstein stated, "Somebody who reads only newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses."
While Wheeler regularly quoted Shakespeare and other Greats, few, if any, physicists these days ever demonstrate a breadth of wisdom--not even in-between their blogging snarkfests. Because they never read the Greats, their epic souls were never exalted, and they let their higher sense of reason go unused, their chief aim becoming to raise grants so as to but sleep and feed, as Hamlet lamented.
Einstein continues, "He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else. And what a person thinks on his own without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of other people is even in the best case rather paltry and monotonous," as evidenced by the self-reflective, navel-gazing blogs which never break beyond their momentary "news of the day" context.
Einstein continues, "There are only a few enlightened people with a lucid mind and style and with good taste within a century. What has been preserved of their work belongs among the most precious possessions of mankind. We owe it to a few writers of antiquity that the people of the Middle Ages could slowly extricate themselves from the superstitions and ignorance that had darkened life for more than half a milleniun."
And now we see why the snarky mathematical physicists have cast aside these "most precious possessions of mankind!" It is because their anti-theory regimes are built upon "superstition and ignorance" as well as snarky groupthink.
Indeed, they are handwaving, mathematical snobs, and Einstein concludes, "Nothing (classic literature) is more needed to overcome the modernist's snobbishness."
I would recommend a new Heroic curriculum for rising renaissance men and physicists, including:
Science:
Original papers by Einstein, Bohr, Newton, Feynman, Dirac, Heisenberg, Planck, Schrodenger, Aristotle, Plato, Heraclitis. All of these could be assembled in a manner that costs less than a typical textbook.
Literature:
Hamlet, Shakespeare
Moby Dick, Herman Melville
Paradise Lost, Milton
Dante's Inferno
Homer's Iliad and Odyssey
Opening Books:
The Battle for The Soul of Capitalism, John C. Bogle
The Odyssey, Homer
Mythology:
The Hero With a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell
Philosophy:
Socrates' Apology, Plato
Plato's Republic (particularly Book VII & The Parable of The Cave)
Aristotle's Poetics
The American Founding:
The Declaration of Independence
The Constitution
Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography
Economics:
The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Adam Smith
The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith
The Entrepreneurial Imperative, Carl Schramm
The Road to Serfdom, F.A. Hayek
Classical Economics, Thomas Sowell
Religion:
Exodus (KJV)
The Book of Matthew (KJV)
Moving Dimensions Theory--which regards time as an emergent phenomena--was inspired in part by Einstein's words pertaining to the higher purpose of physical theories: "Before I enter upon a critique of mechanics as a foundation of physics, something of a broadly general nature will first have to be said concerning the points of view according to which it is possible to criticize physical theories at all. The first point of view is obvious: The theory must not contradict empirical facts. . . The second point of view is not concerned with the relation to the material of observation but with the premises of the theory itself, with what may briefly but vaguely be characterized as the "naturalness" or "logical simplicity" of the premises (of the basic concepts and of the relations between these which are taken as a basis). This point of view, an exact formulation of which meets with great difficulties, has played an important role in the selection and evaluation of theories since time immemorial."
The vastly wealthy anti-theory regimes no longer approach physics as the Founding Fathers of physics approached physics. Safe from logic, reason, and experiment in their multiverses/parallel universes, they have rejected the wisdom and philosophy of Einstein, Bohr, Born, Planck, Newton, Aristotle, Plato, and Galileo; and they regularly send froth sycophantic attack dogs to tear down true physical theories, while trying to bankrupt true physicists, to keep their perpetual-motion money machines running 24/7, even as they vote and legislate against time, space, physical reality, the foundational papers and questions, and rugged cowboy physicists.
And yet, it moves. Below is a simple chart that shows the simple glory of MDT, when contrasted to the institutionalized and well-rewarded failures of the snarky anti-theory regimes built upon meaningless math that is founded upon masturabatory math. "I do not feel obligated to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reasons, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." -GalileoAttachment #1: Moving_Dimensions_Theory_Einstein__Heros_Journey_Physics.pdf
