Illusions of Einstein and Rotary Blades Curving
Physics is supposed to be a science about reality, which is objective and not subjective at all. Why then theoretical physicists are so persistent in bringing an observer (or a concept of an observer) in their theories?
Let’s start with what we all understand well, before looking into Einstein’s relativism or Quantum Physics illusions. We all have experienced illusion of spoon or pencil bending/breaking in water:
And many of us saw videos with rotary blades on airplanes or helicopters curving/bending:
We understand the difference between perception and reality in both cases.
Some of us have heard about Einstein’s Special Relativity (SR theory): time in fast moving objects slows down and such objects shrink or flatten:
And some of us have heard about Einstein’s General Relativity (GR theory) about time slowing down around mass and space bending around stars and planets, which causes gravity:
Actually, Einstein was right or real about time slowing down only, but wrong or unreal about objects and space changing sizes or metrics. Spatial effects of SR and GR are illusions, like pencil and rotary blades bending are illusions only.
We do not experience time dilation in our life ever, do we?
The reason for not having a perception of time speed change (“time dilation” term was coined by Einstein for this) is evolutionary:
— Time speed on the Earth and away from the Earth differ by one billionth only (for a second on the Earth, 1.000000001 of a second passes far away from the Earth);
— Time in the Universe during 70 years of our life speeds up by 0.00000001 only (a second 70 years ago equals 1.00000001 of a second now).
Of course, we don’t notice such changes. Now, why time dilation causes such illusions? For example, time dilation causes refraction. And such refraction is as easy to prove for time dilation case as for the classic case of Snell’s law:
And refraction explains how an object travelling the distance of 100×c (c is the speed of light ~300,000 km/sec) in our 2 seconds does not break c-speed-limit:
For Bob Lazar’s craft, speeding time around its walls is the method for travelling fast (similar to the orange object in the picture above moving fast inside faster time).
Besides relativistic cases (either based on “at the same time/moment” perception or space bending illusion), in Time Matters eBook (chapters 28, 33) we discussed quantum physics confusions (illusions, delusions) based on observer/observations. Interestingly, refraction by Snell’s law is intrinsically a quantum effect:
And so is time (which is quantum fluctuations), and so is gravity (which is the difference in pressure from quantum fluctuations attributed to time dilation). Details are in Time Matters eBook chapter 18.
Now, the blunt answer to the question opening this story is:
By bringing an observer in their theories, physicists tend to bring illusions into the science. Wrapping such illusions in math does not make them real. And predictability of an illusion (even with math) does not mean it is real.
Next read Final Reality Check: Space Curvature vs. Time Dilation.