{"id":52,"date":"2008-02-18T08:48:53","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T13:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/52"},"modified":"2008-02-18T08:48:53","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T13:48:53","slug":"gazing-into-the-relative-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/52","title":{"rendered":"Gazing Into the Relative Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Came across a great post entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/skullsinthestars.com\/2008\/02\/12\/the-pre-history-of-einsteins-relativity\/\">&#8220;The Pre-history of Einstein&#8217;s Relativity&#8221;<\/a> over at Skulls in the Stars.<\/p>\n<p>It starts with Galileo and the notions he had to overturn, and progresses through Newton and through to about <del datetime=\"2008-02-20T13:02:36+00:00\">1900<\/del> 1880.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding Newton and relativity,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The first excerpt observes that understandings of space, time and motion that arise from everyday experience lead one to certain \u2018prejudices\u2019, or misunderstandings, about the nature of these quantities. In particular, there is a confusion concerning the ideas of \u2018absolute\u2019 and \u2018relative\u2019 motion. These seem to be the same misconceptions we discussed earlier in the context of Galileo\u2019s work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which applies to a whole bunch of physics, especially quantum mechanics, in addition to relativity.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunclipse.org\/?p=539\">Science After Sunclipse<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Added 2-20:  <a href=\"http:\/\/skullsinthestars.com\/2008\/02\/19\/relativity-newtonian-relativity\/#more-270\">next installment<\/a>, in-depth Newtonian Ralativity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Came across a great post entitled &#8220;The Pre-history of Einstein&#8217;s Relativity&#8221; over at Skulls in the Stars. It starts with Galileo and the notions he had to overturn, and progresses through Newton and through to about 1900 1880. Regarding Newton &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/52\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}