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 Einstein's
Method
A scholarly inquiry...
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This book examines a method
Einstein used extensively and applies it to
current problems in QM and relativity.
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Comment: Is your whole book
written as a Socratic dialogue? Why did
you choose to do so?
Reply: The Foreword, which doubles
as an introduction, and a short essay on
Einstein and his method are not in dialog
form. When you must explain and defend
many new ideas a question and answer
format works well as Galileo showed in
his famous dialog that advanced the
Copernican theory.
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Comment [from the Amazon review]:
"...Klevgard has written the
seminal snapshot of a core analysis of
quantum and relative physics, from an
intuitive ontological point of view.
[It]...explain[s] what's been missing
in quantum uncertainty..."
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Comment: Is the uncertainty principle
the basis for all of quantum mechanics?
Reply: Heisenberg certainly thought so,
whereas Bohr thought the wave-particle duality
was more fundamental. Both were original
thinkers, but as I point out in my book, both
are open to criticism from the point of view of
ontology (what exists and what occurs).
Bohr and countless others treat the particle as
the conjugal opposite of a wave whereas a
particle is an existing material entity/object
and a wave is a form and not an entity. The
opposite of the waveform (i.e., the form
radiation possesses) is the field form (i.e.,
the form matter possesses); instances of one
occur and progress in space, instances of the
other exist and progress in time.
As for Heisenberg’s uncertainty
principle, it is basically limited to
projectile motion such as moving electrons. The
uncertainty relation does not apply to
space-stationary matter, for example. Such
matter has zero momentum so it is foolish to
quantify an uncertainty-of-momentum for a
particle that has no momentum in the first
place. The equivalent is to quantify the
uncertainty of the photon’s rest mass.
The uncertainty principle and wave-field
duality can both be traced back to ontology:
mass and energy entities, field and wave forms,
and existence and occurrence categories.
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