Relativity Reduced
A friend has done this piece on reality and its associations to perception. And I have to interject. Little goodfornothingknowitall that I am.
Physics does define a reality as a child of a relativity. A reality on coordinates set beta is something you see from coordinates set alpha, where you are, on coordinates set beta. Fine. Einstein said so. Must be true.
Hmm.
But the coordinates? Are they not absolute? How do you define the fourth dimension? By defining an absolute “c”.
Absolutes.
When everything is supposed to be relative.
Physics.
Perceptions.
Repercussions to perceptions.
Why?
‘Cause Big Daddy Al said so. So beat it!
What if alpha is moving at velocity “c”? What happens to the fourth dimension?
Simple. It vanishes.
A lie within a lie. Can nothing move at the speed of light? Can nothing for all the cash in Bill Gates’ private accounts in The Bank of Zurich change Planck’s constant?
No.
Einstein said so. Must be true.
My friend says reality is an accident of perception, a maximal statistical correlation between events.
What happens to beta if alpha moves at velocity “c”? If beta had an initial relative velocity to alpha, how fast does it go now?
“c” plus the initial relative velocity?
In your dreams.
“c” is the limit all those nonlinear differentials tend to. Things can’t move faster. So beta has the same relative velocity as every other frame has to alpha.
“c”.
So beta becomes the same as any other frame. Alpha perceives beta as stationary relative to all other frames. “c” is God. It considers all its children the same.
Then if “c” is almighty, and your space coordinates are also defined in terms of “c”, and even the whole Theory of Relativity goes down the drain when you are moving at “c”, then how is everything real?
Here’s the deal. Nothing is real but the speed of light. The only absolute thing in the entire Universe.
Now does that fit in with the statistical model?
Depends on whether the model is moving at “c” in relation to your perception. If it is, then what do you know, your idea is real. If it isn’t, then too bad.
Establishment defines Reality. When the great chariots of The People go to War, against alleged stockpiles of nuclear and biological weaponry in Iraq or elsewhere, they hold the system of coordinates in their hands. Reality is but a child of the same system. Whether they conform to your coefficient of correlation is immaterial. They will only acknowledge your data pool when they are moving at “c” relative to you. When they feel benevolent and see you all the same. And give you all the same gifts of eight hours of noble labour a day (multipliable by a coefficient depending on your position relative to them, value>=0 and <=3), quarters that wouldn’t honour the most lowly of rodents, a Right to Information that doesn’t exist, and free to air TV channels.
Enjoy.