Unlike some occasions with you, Lloyd, here you are speaking with a familiar dignity for which you can be - and often are - worthy and deserving.
I would know and speculate very little, were it not for the knowledge and speculation of others; recently sir: including you. On the occasions when you resort to abuse and misplaced condescension, you only lose credence - and readers - and are not the Lloyd Gillespie I respect and - very often - learn from. Neither - by any means - do I claim any immunity from the issued impatience, weakness and immaturity; though I'm working on it.
I say, think and feel the same way about Mr. David Wing (hope I got that name right - you know, dleviwing - salutations to you, sir).
IMO,each and both of you are front runners - and excellent - straightforward - guides in this entire forum. Subjective friction and abrasiveness is in complete contrast - and a disservice - to each and both of you, as teachers - and students. Here's hoping you receive this expression in good spirits and not as divisory.
Having said that, procession follows in the issues directly at hand.
There are - for the moment and occasion - only a few notations of response to your thoughtful list; most of which nobly speaks to - and about - both of us...
How did I
add to Einstein's work? I took the extra steps of
re-cognizing that the import of what he was saying - in a qualfied context - was correct...
He proved - as others have - that corporeal matter is an omnidirectionally accelerating field, then declined (recoiled away from - as others have) to
follow through enough with that (formidably astonishing) discovery: that it is not as 'incredible' or untenable as it appears: at first consideration.
On the contrary (until further notice), it resolves more problems than it presents...
This is not only the reinstatement of the 'disposed' ('ridiculous') proposition that matter is (electromagnetic, and therefore, unsurprisingly) omnidirectionally accelerating (finding near and far gravity to be the renowned 4 <5 & 6>-D space-time continuum), it also reinstates the Steady State theory - finding what would be the thinning out of ('static') space, not to be (static, or) thinning out, after all.
You seem preoccupied with the origin of a 'Prime Causative Mover'.
There are some questions for which there may not be any (mortal) answer...
For my part, like matter, the accelerating expansion is inherent to the ground of existentiality (Existential: 'as is'). Instilling a posture of seeing matter - and it's inherently accompanying electromagnetic, omnidirectional acceleration - as having always been here (approximately 'as is'; w'out contradiction of the law of conservation of mass energy), is no less grounded (and no more or less mysterious) than a posturing of efforts to determine where it 'originated' ('Nothing begets nothing'); ergo, it's here (qua status quo), and always been here (Steady State) and there is no - anthropomorphicaly imposed - 'beginning'.
Your active disfavor - and functional rejection - of the metaphysical school:
handicaps your imagination.
An absolutely established scientifically empirical fact:
begins with 'mere consciousness'.
(I think: therefore I am capable of learning and knowing <sequentially>...)
Imagination precedes knowledge, by definition...
As sure as the arrow of time, and the transcient dispersal of energy.
Regarding considerations of 'no motion'.
Until further notice there is no motionless platform from which to deliver this timeless premise.
'The void' is a thickly and thinly fortified storm of extremely dynamic fields and waves.
('There is no space empty of field'. - Einstein)
Although time and space appear to be endless ('The universe is finite, but unbounded' - Einstein, and, I would add, 'finite in space, but unbounded in time), the capacity of this post (70,000 characters?) is not.
There is much to talk about, no?
I look forward to further studies of your work, hoping that we may find and share more common grounds, or, better understand our differences.
Best regards,
- RP
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