22 January, 2015
MessageToEagle.com -
With the discovery of the crucial, though, unexpected link between space and
time, Einstein realized that these two things could no longer be thought of as
separate things.
They are fused
together and form the continuum (manifold) of space-time, viewed as a
four-dimensional vector space.
Suddenly, he
realized something unbelievable, namely that our understanding of past, present
and future and the sharp difference we see between them - may only be an
illusion.
"The
distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent
illusion," he said.
At first, he wasn't
particularly thrilled with the unified spacetime idea and dismissed new
four-dimensional geometry proposed by Hermann Minkowski, as
"superfluous" pedantry but he eventually accepted the idea and so
must we.
As Arthur
Schopenhauer expressed, "the most insignificant present has over the most
significant past the advantage of reality" and such a belief cannot be so
easily dismissed.
No comments:
Post a Comment