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04-06-2008, 06:55 PM
“We no longer think that physical action is explainable in terms of little hard balls which are the centers of all kinds of forces. A much more abstract kind of concept is demanded in which the particle is no longer something that can be considered in isolation but rather as a part of an all-embracing entity called a ‘field’. In this development Einstein’s thought construction played a vital role.
“When Minkowski in 1908 demonstrated that Einstein’s new theory was equivalent to a geometrical approach uniting space and time in one single entity (4-D space-time), the voices for a ‘physical’ explanation of relativity fell silent, since it now became obvious that an explanation in physical terms cannot be given.”
- Cornelius Lanczos, ALBERT EINSTEIN and the COSMIC ORDER
(George Berkeley, 1710) ... lay the beginning in a distinct explication of what is meant by thing, reality, existence: for in vain shall we dispute concerning the real existence of things, or pretend to any knowledge thereof, so long as we have not fixed the meaning of those words. "All things come out of the one and the one out of all things." - Heraclitus "Reality is an illusion - albeit a persistent one." - Einstein "Particles give me a headache." - Ibid |