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Einstein’s Road to Unity

Platohagel: The Total Field, this thought of Einstein’s sounds as if it was his ultimate goal. Was the development of General Relativity, a road that Einstein discovered along the way? Socrates: Yes, Platohagel. That is a very fruitful way to … Continue reading

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Einstein’s Aquarium and Cows

Socrates: Platohagel, this image completes the Einstein series by bringing the separate thought experiments into one culminating geometry. The aquarium represents spatial perspective—the same reality appearing differently through different panels—while the row of cows represents temporal perspective, showing that what … Continue reading

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Einstein’s Hot Stove Analogy

Platohagel, this third image completes an emerging triptych. The essay begins with Einstein’s deceptively simple realization: measured time and lived time are not identical. A minute on the hot stove may become an eternity in experience, while an hour in … Continue reading

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Assess Geometric Relationships

http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Riemann/Geom/WKCGeom.html “On the Hypotheses which lie at the Bases of Geometry.Bernhard RiemannTranslated by William Kingdon Clifford [Nature, Vol. VIII. Nos. 183, 184, pp. 14–17, 36, 37.] Plan of the Investigation. It is known that geometry assumes, as things given, both … Continue reading

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A New View on Gravity and the Dark Side of the Universe: Erik Verlinde Public Lecture

See: A new view on gravity and the dark side of the cosmos: Erik Verlinde Public Lecture Dialogos of Eide

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Volume 3: The Swiss Years: Writings 1909-1911

Volume 3: The Swiss Years: Writings 1909-1911 Dialogos of Eide

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What is the Total Field?

The general theory of relativity is as yet incomplete insofar as it has been able to apply the general principle of relativity satisfactorily only to gravitational fields, but not to the total field. We do not yet know with certainty … Continue reading

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Albert Einstein and Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath with Einstein in 1930 Was reading a interesting article called, ” When Einstein Met Tagore.  by Maria Popova On July 14, 1930, Albert Einstein welcomed into his home on the outskirts of Berlin the Indian philosopher Rabindranath Tagore. The … Continue reading

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Time Begins, When Counting Begins?

Like Copernicus’ heliocentric theory, Newton’s law of gravitation, and Darwin’s theory of evolution, non-Euclidean geometry has radically affected science, philosophy, and religion. It is fair to say that no more cataclysmic event has ever taken place in the history of … Continue reading

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Space

Space is the boundless, three-dimensional extent in which objects and events occur and have relative position and direction.[1] Physical space is often conceived in three linear dimensions, although modern physicists usually consider it, with time, to be part of the … Continue reading

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