
Originally Posted by
N0B0DY
Ok, I get it. All things that are, or can be, "are a movement" and this implies that without this "illusion" of movement, things cannot exist or be anything. I think Einstein as well supported this view, but like anyone else felt the need to conform to realistic ideals.
In his metaphysical assessment, he suggests that objects are spatially-extended, and when I think of this notion and correlate it to the motion created from gravitation, the referred (matter) below can be replaced with space. Then we have a two-fold relationship of time-dependent space and space-dependent objects; which in turn is suggestive to me as time being the domineering factor of creating this illusion of objects moving over time which would necessarily be inclusive of the energy-field densities because there could only really be one time-independent density which cannot exist as per the above considerations, correct?
"When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter. Physical objects are not in space, but these objects are spatially extended (as fields). In this way the concept 'empty space' loses its meaning. The field thus becomes an irreducible element of physical description, irreducible in the same sense as the concept of matter (particles) in the theory of Newton. The physical reality of space is represented by a field whose components are continuous functions of four independent variables - the co-ordinates of space and time. Since the theory of general relatively implies the representation of physical reality by a continuous field, the concept of particles or material points cannot play a fundament part, nor can the concept of motion. The particle can only appear as a limited region in space in which the field strength or the energy density are particularly high." - (Albert Einstein, Metaphysics of Relativity, 1950)