A Rational Cosmology: Conceptual Flaws in the Theory of Relativity

Essay XXIII

This is Essay XXIII of Mr. Stolyarov's series, "A Rational Cosmology," which seeks to present objective, absolute, rationally grounded views of terms such as universe, matter, volume, space, time, motion, sound, light, forces, fields, and even the higher-order concepts of life, consciousness, and volition. See the index of all the essays in "A Rational Cosmology" here.

The uniform, absolute nature of time, demonstrated in "Time as an Absolute Quality," implies a fundamental logical error at the core of the very foundation of post-Classical physics, namely, Einsteinian Relativity, which holds that the accumulation of time depends on the location and state of the observer.

A rejection of the conceptual core of Relativity does not, however, automatically imply a rejection of what valid observations Albert Einstein's scientific framework may have implied.

One such (hypothetical) observation may be that astronauts in a spaceship that flies at extremely high speeds are not susceptible to the processes of bodily decay in as small an amount of time as those individuals who remain on Earth.

It may also be true that these astronauts' organisms' capacity to react to their environment (and perceive their environment) during a longer period of time will be roughly equal to the Earth-dwellers' reaction and perception capacities during a shorter period of time.

In other words, the individual alterations of non-temporal qualities of particular entities may conceivably be in accord with Einstein's propositions, as is the task of experimental physics to verify. But giving Einstein credit here does not excuse the error at the core of his theory, namely, the proposition that time itself is somehow relative to the observer.

Neither the degree of a man's senescence nor the level of activity with which his brain responds to the environment around him is inherently bound to the passage of particular time intervals.