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But this approach solves some very strange things for me. It leaves me free to accept Lorentz contractions and time dilations. they are a result of those local constants, applied over frames of reference. And it explains a 'plasticity'. What it does not, is to explain how what we see is 'commonly recognizable' as a 'same universe'. Well, I can use those local constants for defining how it should be possible, but? Why does it give us this 'common universe'? How does it do it?
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So what is logic?
It's a belief system.
I think
It's based on the idea that some beliefs are possible to prove, here and now. Also that what we can use for proving them are mathematics, statistics, and probability. Or is there more to it than that, logics that we use? Physics comes from statistics, 'repeatable experiments'. We define it such as if there is a logic to it, then it might be true.
So what is empathy, compassion? What is 'intuitive'? What is a 'eureka moment' that you afterwards dedicate a whole life to proving logically? Then we have love?
Would one stomach that logic is a belief system too? Or are you a devotee? Convinced of there being a 'ultimate logic', no matter whatever logics we have today breaking under new logics, superseding the old. As Relativity's logic supersedes Newtonian?
Does God exist?
And does he need logic, if he/she(it:) does?
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Why I'm asking?
Well, I believe in logic, and hope it to be just such a 'overlapping' truth, no matter what 'breaks' as we use this tool. On the other hand, it does not explain everything, not yet at least. Was reading
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/24/atheism-richard-dawkins-challenge-beliefs-homeless?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2&commentpage=17
And it made me wonder. Not as much about what Cris wrote, I found him quite truthful in his reflections, and it was moving to me. But all those defending logic as the only thing there is? Finding him 'attacking' it? I don't think he did, he's on a journey, and it seems worthwhile to me. Neither did I read him as degenerating others, rather he was lifting up all that we have in common, those emotions, feelings, we all share. Well, I do, and I hope you do too
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What I'm thinking of there is that people love to define belief systems as 'logical'. Remember Hitler, and his 'Aryan logic'? What differ physics, 'hard sciences', from such is that we don't take any belief system for a given. And that we have mathematics, repeatability, and hypothesis's, validating and testing.
But, depending on your logic limits. What you set as your 'system' restricting it, you can reach various results. And never is it more apparent as when it comes to religious dogma. We are flock animals, and we like alpha leaders, but we better use some common sense before choosing one. Or we will end up deluded, by others, but mostly by ourselves..
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A little like politics relative democracy. People seem to be intuitively understanding politics, understandable as I can depict any politic statement by me as a extension of my own private opinions. After all, it's what we in Swedish call 'egen intressen' that defines politics, my 'self interests', what I want, often giving me a gain.
But that's not democracy.
Democracy is very simple, it's one voice, one vote, everyone equal.
Snowden does not discuss politics, to me he discuss what wests politics build on.
Democracy.
And that makes a lot of people uncomfortable. The closest we have to a working democracy today, is the Internet.
Not a country, just Internet. And such a lot of self interests want to become the regulators of it. Some going as far as making nation wide 'intranet' as China, sifting through all information coming from our 'normal' Internet.
Tell me, what's the difference between Chinas approach to a 'free exchange of thoughts and information', and one in where we find information corrupted, sifted through, limiting the free exchange? What the Internet should represent is democracy.
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It's been a weird xmas, almost no snow, more like spring than winter or autumn. You can't draw any far reaching conclusions from that naturally, but to me it's like 'swings', every swing pushing the climate a little further into a warming, storms getting worse, everywhere. We've had some really strong storms here in Sweden recently. On the other hand, if we really wanted to do something about global warming I suspect it would lead the developed country's into something resembling a 'state of emergency'. There are too many heavy interests wanting us to continue on the trodden path, and as we're flock animals, congregating around Alpha leaders? And they on their side want to stay in office, riding the gravy train as far as it can go, as most of us would like to I guess
So, no uncomfortable truths.
Also, no one want to exchange their life for a poorer copy, do they? And it should be one of the effects, as well as a lot of 'imaginary money/assets', circulating as 'real assets' in the banks world, disappearing as people gets real worried, that is if waiting too long with taking action.
Don't rock the boat...
Seems as a good advice?
So, Fukushima then? And nuclear technology?
Nope, don't think that's the way, even though it will become one, as we keep on not 'rocking the boat'. We don't have that many centralized energy technologies left actually. We have coal, oil, 'Natural gas' (methane) and nuclear energy. That's 'energies' that you can rein in, controlled by the few, and without my central heating it can get really cold in Sweden. A very convincing argument for staying in line, wouldn't you say?
Natural recourses are declining though, at the same time as we build up an excess of CO2 in the atmosphere. So, do you think it can lead to small arms wars? Probably, just as clean water should be able too, and fertile land. But not the west, at least not beginning here. We will see it in the poor countries first, and advertisers will gain huge amounts of money playing on wests guilty conscience, telling us to 'share' some part of our personal wealth with them. But it won't stop global warming.
So why am I writing about it, painting such a gloomy picture?
Same thing, it all comes together. The difference between politics, and democracy.
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We do have 'renewables'. Sweden for example have a lot of streams, waterfalls, that you can convert to electric energy. And then there is the sun, winds, waves.. Although building a damn creates its own problems, for people and wild life living further down. And, as we don't try to utilize those resources to their full extent I'm more or less ignoring them for this.
But we do have the Internet. If there ever is going to be a change to the way we behave as a species, we will need to communicate. And I don't mean 'experts'.
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Now take a wild guess why so many interests find the Internet so important, and also want to control its information.
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Then take a wild guess to why I say I don't know any 'democratic countries'. We have a resemblance to it, and we have a real chance of getting further too. But that depends on what you want the Internet to be, a place whereon one voice, one vote, everyone equal, is true? Or one where we adapt to a 'representative Internet'. Represented by what national 'self interests', commercial interests, etc, guides it to?
Interesting, isn't it
What do you want with you life? And your kids.
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Internet is no different from outside your home. There, as here, you will find certain people you won't want to be with. People you wouldn't dream of letting into your living-room.
But that is exactly what democracy is, allowing even those you can't stand, to have that voice, and vote, treating them equally.
So, it's not 'politics', even though some politicians might try to convince you otherwise.
Politics are, to its highest degree, a question of 'egen intressen', self interests.
Enlightened or not.
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I've seen discussions about what is more 'right', although none discussing it my way. Defining a universe over frames of reference, in where you can reach some astounding results depending on your choice of measurements/system. Or from defining it 'locally'. Einstein first defined SR.
SR is without gravity, no gravity at all. In that place he created a axiom that nobody know why it is.
The speed of light is the same, measured from any inertial place of observation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_frame_of_reference
To simplify it we can use earth for measuring a speed, ignoring spin (frame dragging) and so gravity.
That will give us 'c' .
The problem here is that the universe use mass(energy) and gravity.
And that's GR.
Measuring over frames of reference you can reach conclusions that seems to contradict the statement of 'c'. But it doesn't, it's a question of how you define it.
I define it locally. That's also why I'm wondering how to define 'one local frame' practically. I would prefer a definition in where we could set a measurable limit for what one frame of reference is. That's also why I define a universe's geometry from local interactions.
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And yes, such a interpretation will lead to QM. I also keep coming back to the way relativity defines a relativistically moving mass to be able to 'shrink a universe'. To see where that takes me you need to accept both Lorentz contractions and time dilations. You also need to accept that they are consistent through all types of motion, uniform motion (relative motion) and acceleration/decelerations.
To me they are real effects, just as your local measurements tells you. And that statement comes from, my very own
analysis of what a 'repeatable experiment' should mean in this circumstance, and how we do them. We do them from a local definition, using a local clock and ruler.
So, ignore Lorentz contractions and time dilations at your peril. Because, if you do, you now have invalidated all repeatable experiments ever done. There are more things to it naturally, but this is the simplest reason I can give.
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Now, we can turn 'repeatable experiments' around if we like. What that says is also a axiom, the one where we expect physics to be the same in all points of a (measurable) universe. Constants, principles, properties being the same everywhere you can go, and tell us about it.
Because that is what a 'repeatable experiment' should be, to me, to contain a logic. Otherwise you create a 'magical universe', steered by different natural laws, constants etc, at different patches of 'space' (vacuum). Don't like that one, and no experiments done points to it either, that I know of?
So, you can do a 'repeatable experiment' anywhere in this universe. And that is 'locality' to me.
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So we have two views. The one I prefer, in where all 'points' of a universe are equal, scaling them down to their simplest 'containment' of constants etc. and one in where you can define a lot of confusing things, debating 'c' and so SR.
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Neither is wrong, as far as I know. To me it's a practical question foremost, and what makes it simpler for me. Using (my type of) locality I can define a arrow, equal to 'c'. Using locality I also can suggest a 'geometry' as created from local principles, constants, properties. And that makes Lorentz contractions and time dilations understandable for me, in another way.
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Admit it, no matter your understanding of the mathematics. The idea of Lorentz contractions and time dilation, when considered from several observers in a defined patch of space, using different motions and mass, confuse you. But only when we think about a universe as some 'container' of them. We use 'systems' and 'dimensions', presuming that this way of looking at is the correct one. And it is how we built physics. But I expect it to be possible to use a 'universe' defined from local definitions instead, building a geometry from interactions. And then Lorenz contractions and time dilations becomes a result of your local definition relative all other 'points' creating what you find to be a universe.
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Considering that SR is without gravity, also defining gravity as a up/downwelling in all 'points'. Can we define some scaling from where 'gravity' disappear? I don't know.
What is a property?
Spin?
Gravity?
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'Up' and down welling as we have two factors. You act on gravity by being of matter, and gravity acts on you. But in reality I would prefer to define gravity as being of one sign, and that should be a 'down welling'.
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There is actually the possibility of no singular frame of reference being able to exist, neither theoretically nor practically. And it may well be the correct definition, practically, for creating a measurable universe. The rest would then be properties constants and principles, unable to define to any specific location. Becoming a sort of 'background' to what we have as a universe.
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Because to get to a interaction, you need a 'split'.
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Things 'bump' into each other, do they not? And waves 'propagate'. And we track it to the existence of a 'arrow', making all of it possible. And you do die.
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No singular frame of reference but still locality? What would that make of what you observe, scaling something down?
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So what do you think? Can there be a interaction, scaling it down, inside something defined as one singular frame of reference? I'm not discussing being 'at rest' with something here. That involves two defined 'objects', and usually reserved for macroscopic definitions.
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