Einstein’s Method: A Fresh Approach to Quantum Mechanics and Relativity
October 5, 2010 by admin
Filed under Waves And Wave Mechanics
Einstein’s Method: A Fresh Approach to Quantum Mechanics and Relativity
Why do photons and speeding electrons have both wave features and particle features when common sense tells us that they should be either particle or wave and not an amalgam of both? And why is the velocity of light constant for all observers? These central questions of physics are reexamined in a new approach using an adaptation of an old method. In quantum physics Einstein’s chief method of inquiry between 1905 and 1925 involved a comparison of the thermodynamic properties of matter quanta and
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Review by Lloyd Gillespie for Einstein’s Method: A Fresh Approach to Quantum Mechanics and Relativity
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Paul Klevgard has written the seminal snapshot of a core analysis of quantum and relative physics, from an intuitive ontological point of view. He’s achieved what everyone over the last 100 years has attempted and failed to do. Not only does this little volume easily explain what’s been missing in quantum uncertainty, but what has otherwise been very clouded and unclear about real, rest and relative mass. Paul takes all the major entangled issues and makes them clear through a simple dialogical style, reminiscent of Socrates and Plato’s dialogics.
Klevgard removes the pluralistic relative nonsense that’s surrounded, not only physics, but philosophy and mathematics as well, by showing clearly where relativity belongs, and where real rest mass exists. He separates space/time into space(extensional dimension) and time(progressional dimension), which offers the clearest examples/analogies/explanations I’ve ever seen, even clearer than Einstein’s own. The use of ontology as vehicle of explanation compares only to Charles Sanders Peirce’s use, to make the complex, simple, yet scientifically factual.
If you’ve ever wanted a clearer explanation of Lorentz/Einstein transformations of mass to energy, and energy to mass, then buy this little jewel. It’s well worth far more than the cost…
Review by Paul D. Goodell for Einstein’s Method: A Fresh Approach to Quantum Mechanics and Relativity
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This is potentially an important work. It certainly contains a number of original ideas regarding the formal similarity between particle and photon, between field and wave. The thrust of the book is the “radical equality of mass and energy.” I am not sure the author fully spells out what this means in the broader sense and I wish he had given more space to Bohm and Bell. Nevertheless, I liked the historical context provided, especially about Einstein, and highly recommend this book.