Friday, 10 July 2015

newtonian mechanics - What are absolute space & time? Why are they not absolute in reality?


As said by A.P. French in Newtonian point of view:



Space is a sort of stationary three-dimensional matrix into which one can place objects or through which objects can move without producing any interaction betweeen the object in the space. [...] Time, in Newton's view, is also absolute and flows on without regard to any physical object or event. [...] One can neither speed up time nor slow down its rate, and this flow of time exists uniformly throughout the universe.



So, what do these definitions want to tell? What are absolute space & time actually? Why are not space and time absolute in reality? What are the flaws in the definition that make it fail?





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