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Quantum mechanics is an extremely successful theory of nature and yet it lacks an intuitive axiomatization. In contrast, the special theory of relativity is well understood and is rooted into natural or experimentally justified postulates.…

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This work aims to formalize some of the ways scientific concepts are formed in the process of theoretical physics discovery. Since this may at first seem like a task beyond the scope of the exact sciences (natural and formal sciences), we…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Omar Aguilar , Anthony Aguirre

That gravitation can be understood as purely metric phenomenon depends crucially on the validity of a number of hypotheses which are summarised by the Einstein Equivalence Principle, the least well tested part of which being the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 Domenico Giulini

This paper has been withdrawn by the author after further work showed the proposed theoretical approach cannot fit planetary perihelion precession data. As presented, the theory doesn't fit gravitational light deflection by the sun either,…

General Physics · Physics 2014-03-28 Steven Kenneth Kauffmann

Solving special relativity paradoxes requires rigorous analysis of event timing, due to relative simultaneity in consequence of the Lorentz transformation. Since clock synchronisation is a convention in special theory of relativity, instead…

Classical Physics · Physics 2012-12-04 Jacek Ciborowski , Marta Wlodarczyk

It is well known that, making the Abelian projection of Einstein's theory one can obtain the restricted gravity which is simpler than Einstein's theory but describes the core dynamics of Einstein's gravity. In this paper we present the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-10 S. H. Oh , Sangwoo Kim , Y. M. Cho

Using ideas from continuum mechanics we construct a theory of gravity. We show that this theory is equivalent to Einstein's theory of general relativity; it is also a much faster way of reaching general relativity than the conventional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-01-28 Christian G. Boehmer , Robert J. Downes

We present a basics of the Einstein General Theory of Relativity. In the first part of this review we derive relations of Riemann geometry which are used in the General Relativity. In the second part we discuss Einstein Equations and some…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-23 S. M. Bilenky

Gravitation, according to General Relativity, is an attribute of space-time's geometry and hence not a force in the Newtonian sense. This is a consequence of Einstein's equivalence principle, which so far passed all experimental tests with…

Popular Physics · Physics 2013-09-10 Domenico Giulini

Einstein identified singularities in spacetimes, such as at the Schwarzschild radius, where later relativists only find a coordinate system assigning multiple values to a single spacetime event. These differing judgments derive from…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2024-08-07 John D. Norton

We review the physics at the end of the nineteenth century and summarize the process of the establishment of Special Relativity by Albert Einstein in brief. Following in the giant's footsteps, we outline the scientific method which helps to…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. H. Yuan

We compare the results obtained by interpreting some fundamental relativistic experiments from the point of view of two alternative theories: Einstein's special relativity theory and the Lorentz-Poincare theory admitting the existence of a…

General Physics · Physics 2008-12-02 Bernhard Rothenstein , Stefan Popescu , George J. Spix

Many of the technical complications associated with the general theory of relativity ultimately stem from the nonlinearity of Einstein's equation. It is shown here that an appropriate choice of dynamical variables may be used to eliminate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-01-07 Abraham I. Harte

We develop a purely quantum theory based on the novel principle of relativity, termed the quantum principle of relativity, instead of directly applying the diffeomorphism invariance. We demonstrate that the essence of the principle can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-06 Jinsu Kim , Dongok Kim

We show that alternative relativity theories that are essentially based on varied distant clock synchronization procedures can be recovered by using the standard Lorentz-Einstein transformations for the space-time coordinates of the same…

General Physics · Physics 2008-12-02 Bernhard Rothenstein

Einstein's celebrated theory of gravitation can be presented in three forms: general relativity, teleparallel gravity, and the rarely considered before symmetric teleparallel gravity. Extending the latter, we introduce a new class of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-12 Laur Järv , Mihkel Rünkla , Margus Saal , Ott Vilson

We discuss what we take to be three possible misconceptions in the foundations of general relativity, relating to: (a) the interpretation of the weak equivalence principle and the relationship between gravity and inertia; (b) the connection…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 Harvey R. Brown , James Read

We try to lay down the foundations of a Newtonian theory where inertia and gravitational fields appear in a unified way aiming to reach a better understanding of the general relativistic theory. We also formulate a kind of equivalence…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-11 Xavier Jaén , Alfred Molina

In his book `Physics and Philosophy', Heisenberg suggested that the quantum world is one of ``potentialities or possibilities'' and that the classical realm is one of ``things or facts''. After ascertaining that his categories most…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2020-03-17 Armin Nikkhah Shirazi

The confrontation between Einstein's theory of gravitation and experiment is summarized. Although all current experimental data are compatible with general relativity, the importance of pursuing the quest for possible deviations from…

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