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Special relativity: from Einstein to strings by John H. Schwarz, Patricia M. Schwarz

Special relativity: from Einstein to strings John H. Schwarz, Patricia M. Schwarz ebook
ISBN: 0521812607, 9780521812603
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Page: 195
Format: djvu

Special relativity predicts that if you take a massive particle and keep applying forces on it, it goes faster and faster, slowly approaching the speed of light, but never quite reaching it. You are just brainwashed bigots. And they unify, no doubt about it: in the math, at least, all of nature from quantum mechanics to gravity emerges from the equations of string theory. Special relativity not exactly a defence of string theory as general relativity is quite different, and anyway special relativity conflicts with quantum field theory: Quantum field theory is moving towards an ether picture of the It is really to be expected that the same people who admire Einstein's early errors as if they were better than his major work in general relativity, are the people who also work on string theory. "“Unlike quantum physics, which remains bizarre even to experts, much of relativity makes sense. Such a contradiction took a supremely confident mind to propose. So no lengthy derivations, but I will give you a few observations, and hopefully that will be enough. Albert Einstein, 1950 (Scientific American): "[re: the general principle of relativity] without this it would be practically impossible for anybody to hit .. For example, long after the advent of nuclear weapons and power have vindicated Einstein, I still get detailed manuscripts from people every few weeks claiming that E=mc2 is wrong. Einstein (1950) - Special Relativity is Not Fundamental. Einstein used this principle as a postulate of special relativity, assuming that the speed of light in a vacuum does not depend on who is measuring it, so long as that person is in an inertial frame of reference. Physics itself is riven by the competing frameworks of quantum theory and general relativity, whose differing descriptions of our world eerily mirror the wave-particle tension. This dedication to precision stems primarily from physicists' desire to unite quantum mechanics with general relativity, given that some theories of quantum gravity – including string theory and loop quantum gravity – imply that Lorentz invariance might be broken. How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog is published by Basic Books. And then, in June, Einstein completed special relativity - which added a twist to the story: Einstein's March paper treated light as particles, but special relativity sees light as a continuous field of waves.