Spaced-out Matter. Past is Prologue, cont.

[RascalPuff]

"...Descarte was not so far from the truth when he believed he must exclude the existence of an empty space. The notion indeed appears absurd as long as physical reality is seen exclusively in ponderable bodies. It requires the idea of the field as the representative of reality, in combination with the General Principle of Relativity, to show the true kernel of Descarte's idea, 'there exists no space empty of field'." - Einstein, p.p.375 - 6, IDEAS & OPINIONS.


"The whole evolution of our ideas about the processes of nature, with which we have been concerned so far, might be regarded as an organic development of Newton’s ideas. But while the process of perfecting the field theory was still in full swing, the facts of heat, radiation, the spectra, radioactivity, etc., revealed a limit to the serviceableness of the whole intellectual system which today still seems to us absolutely insuperable, in spite of immense success at certain points. Many physicists maintain - and there are weighty arguments in their favor - that in the face of these facts not merely the differential law but the law of causation itself - hitherto the fundamental postulate of all natural science, has collapsed. Even the possibility of a spatial-temporal construction, which can be unambiguously coordinated with physical events, is denied." - Albert Einstein, ESSAYS IN SCIENCE, 1934

"Regarding the tenability of gravitation as an impelling force, paralleled by the Cosmological Constant as a repelling force, a natural and complementary occurrence of this apparently incongruous ambiguity exists and prevails in the fact that omnidirectional electric field lines around a positive charge are directed away from the center of the charge; whereas, the field lines around a negative charge move inward, toward the center of the charge." - K.B. Robertson, p. 221, GRAVITY IS THE 4th DIMENSION, Copyright 1979.


"I do find gravity an attractive force at times." - K.B.Robertson. Ibid.
"Matter and space are seen to be inseperable and interdependent parts of a single whole." - Fritjov Capra, THE TAO OF PHYSICS, p. 208

"According to the physicist-philosopher Ernst Mach... material objects not only determine the structure of the surrounding space, but are in turn influenced by their environment in an essential way."
- Fritjov Capra, THE TAO OF PHYSICS, p. 209



"It is agreed on all hands that the only principle which could serve as the basis of quantum theory would be one that constituted a translation of a field theory into the scheme of quantum statistics." - Einstein, IDEAS & OPINIONS, p. 334



"'Empty space' is not the absence of 4-D matter, but rather, a physical 5 & 6 dimensional (electromagnetic) extension of it." - p. 60 Gravity is the 4th Dimension, by Kent B. Robertson, Copyright August 1988



"No amount of collection of facts could lead to these equations unless the Principle of General Relativity were used. This is the reason why all attempts to obtain a deeper knowledge of the foundations of physics seem doomed to me unless the basic concepts are in accordance with General Relativity from the beginning." - Albert Einstein, IDEAS & OPINIONS, p. 352.


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"Matter and space are seen to be inseparable and interdependent parts of a single whole." - Fritjov Capra, THE TAO OF PHYSICS, p. 208


"According to the physicist-philosopher Ernst Mach... material objects not only determine the structure of the surrounding space, but are in turn influenced by their environment in an essential way." - Fritjov Capra, THE TAO OF PHYSICS, p. 209



"In one of the most reckless and sweeping generalisations in the history of thought, Newton filled the entire space of the Universe with interacting forces of attraction, issuing from all particles of matter and acting upon all particles of matter across the boundless abysses of darkness." - Arthur Koestler, THE SLEEPWALKERS



"Regarding the tenability of gravitation as an impelling force, paralleled by the Cosmological Constant as a repelling force, a natural and complementary occurrence of this apparently incongruous ambiguity exists and prevails in the fact that omnidirectional electric field lines around a positive charge are directed away from the center of the charge; whereas, the field lines around a negative charge move inward, toward the center of the charge." - K.B. Robertson, p. 521,Gravity is the 4th Dimension, Copyright 1979.

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[Profpat]

I hope you don't mind RP but I lifted part of your quote for my thread above dealing with the 5th element.

Thank you and best,

Pat

[RascalPuff]

I hope you don't mind RP but I lifted part of your quote for my thread above dealing with the 5th element.

Thank you and best,

Pat

Hey Prof:
I'm only the piano player on the issued quotes.
I'm getting them from sheet music authored by others.
Thanks for the compliment. Happiness to ya.

- RP