| the motion paradox -
10-10-2007, 02:19 PM
The title is the title of Joseph Mazur’s new book published this year. This book begins and ends with the unsolved enigma of Zeno’s logical argument that motion is impossible. After more than 2000 years no counter argument yet comes to the surface of absolute clarity. So even with Einstein’s theories of relativity and all the quantum field theories put together still could not prove or disprove the statement that absolute motion is impossible.
The truthfulness of this statement is the same as the statement stating that taken as a whole the entire singular universe is motionless. To prove any of these statements the proof must be derived by stepping outside the physical universe or at the least by circumnavigating around it. As what was done in proving that the world is round like a ball. However, these two analogies are both logically deficient simply because the underlying assumption is that the space-time dimensionality does not change (decrease or increase). On the other hand, if space-time dimensions are allowed to change only spatially, for example, allowed by superstring theories then the problem could be simplified to whether time direction is singular, doubly periodic, or multi-periodic. If time is doubly periodic then the period of one cycle would still have duration of at least one googol years.
Time independence: [∂E(g)]²=[∂F(a)×∂r(a)]·[∂F(b)×∂r(b)] and Mass independence: ¶a(t)·¶r(t)=c²
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