Inertial Frames of Individuals

John Lo
Worldview in Physics
2 min readJul 13, 2018

Two postulates formulated the theory of special relativity.

  1. The physical law is the same in all inertial frames.
  2. The speed of light is constant in all inertial frames.

Inertial frame refers to a framework of reference with no external force. It can be simply be any object that can observe physical phenomena.

It can be derived from the above postulates that time is not absolute, which means time in one inertial frame may not be the same in another inertial frame.

Moreover, as the speed of the inertial frame increases, the time of the inertial frame dilates.

Generally, inertial frames are consistent with respect to the objective physical law, but inconsistent with respect to the subjective observation of physical phenomena.

That is also true for individuals.

With the inertial frames of individuals, we are observing objective reality subjectively.

In that way, we may have difference in interpretation of reality, which may results in inconsistency of communication.

But actually this is not a problem as we have our own strategy to benefit from it.

We are interpreting the reality with our own knowledge, which is different for everybody.

So our interpretation is not the reality, but rather a projection of it.

Our different knowledge gives us different projection of reality, which can be combined to reconstruct a more holistic reality.

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