In 1949, six years before his death, Einstein stated explicitly that there is no absolute motion. Along the same context, he also stated that the general theory of relativity is incomplete since it cannot apply to the “total field.” Although he did not explicate its physical content, he believed that the general principle of relativity will provide a necessary and effective tool for the solution of the problem of the “total field.” On the one hand, what is known about the general principle is that it explains the physically measurable contents of three fundamental concepts: relative motion, space, and time. On the other hand, their practicality hinges on the four faces of motion: (1) linear velocity, (2) linear acceleration, (3) angular velocity, and (4) angular acceleration. Mathematically, these are all vector quantities. They imply the omnipresence of two important components: magnitude and direction. Hypothetically, complete description of these components can help solve the problem of the “total field” if and only if it is equivalent to the totality of the space-time continuum.

From the outset, it can be logically surmised that this “total field” must be a scalar field analogous to the Higgs field. Most physicists believe that its existence will give in particular a closure to the standard model of elementary particles, in general a closure to the laws of physics by providing a theory of everything (TOE). By its definition, the particular purpose of the Higgs mechanism is to locate the origin of mass, in general, the origin of matter. However, all scalar fields suggest a principle of directional invariance equivalence to a physical theory of probability. Comprehensively, this principle implies general covariance of all physical laws but it requires the absoluteness of angular acceleration, which can only be physically measured as the directional property of intrinsic spin. In this context, the remaining three faces of motion are all reduced to the absoluteness of physical constants. The linear velocity approaches the absoluteness of light speed. The linear acceleration approaches the local equivalence of gravitational acceleration. Finally, the angular velocity approaches the equivalence of Planck’s constant of action.