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AKPHIL: Philosophie der Physik

AKPHIL 6: Alternative Ansätze

AKPHIL 6.2: Talk

Wednesday, March 9, 2005, 17:20–17:40, TU TC6

...magis amica veritas: Philosophy of Nature Beyond Relativity and Relativism. On the Conditions of the Possibility of Truth at the Bottom of Albert Einstein’s Theory of Motion as a Legacy from Galileo and Newton to Future Science. — •Ed Dellian — Bogenstr. 5, 14169 Berlin

A first philosophic investigation of the (not analytic-algebraic, but throughout synthetic-geometric) foundation of Galileo’s and Newton’s mechanics on Euclid’s theory of proportions decodes Newton’s Second Law as a quaternary proportion of motion (effect) to its cause impressed force, governed by a constant c to come to light as a relation of the element of space to the element of time, to read F/mv = c [L/T]. This realist law of cause and effect describes the generation of motion in space and time, and harmonizes perfectly with Newton’s philosophy. It is confronted with the determinist F = ma of schoolmechanics (not Newton’s but Euler’s law according to new findings), and with the energy-over-momentum relation (E/p = c) derived from Maxwell’s equations (Poynting 1884). The Newtonian proportion of motion, or momentum p, to impressed force (not to confound with Newton’s centripetal force), and a same proportion of p to energy (not to confound with kinetic energy) underlying Einstein’s Special Relativity and Heisenberg’s indeterminacy relations as well, is shown to characterize the realist philosophy (in a special Platonic sense)of modern physics.