Monday, March 10, 2014

Just got the Book

Book just arrived.
Part 1 Reality's Arena is divided into four chapters. Those chapters are "Roads to Reality", "The Universe as a Bucket", "Relativity and the Absolute", and "Entangling Space."
The first chapter "Roads to Reality" serves two purposes. The first purpose is to supplement the preface in providing an introduction to the subject matter of the book. The second purpose is to give the reader a foundation of knowledge from which to build upon latter in the book. It starts by stating that the view of reality that most people have is that which they can perceive through their senses. In addition it is stated that this view of reality is fundamentally flawed, in that the way that people perceive the universe is misleading. The human perception of the universe is so limited that we only perceive a minuscule fraction of  the universe and much of what we perceive is not what it seems. Next the book begins to discuss classical physics and its main problem. That problem is not how things move or want makes them move, but instead it is what they move through. That is space. The main problem, what is space? Issac Newton defined space as an absolute unchanging field that together with time provides the arena that the universe is formed and structured within. Most people agreed with these ideas, because they lined up well with experience and with the mathematics known at the time. However this model did not account for light's motion or radiation produce by objects when heated.  

5 comments:

  1. Hey This brings up a lot of good points that most people don't really think about like how big space really is. I will be following you and anticipating other intriguing questions your book brings up. Best of luck!!

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  2. Well this post on its own is enough to make your head hurt geez. I can't wait to see how the many proposed question will be solved and what new questions will perhaps be answered.

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  3. Wow your book sounds very complicated and interesting I can't wait to hear more about it :)

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  4. Your book seems complicated, but it could just be our perspective. Can't wait to read more and learn about these great questions included! Happy Reading, and good luck!

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