Einstein’s Theory of Relativity: A Dynamic and Open System
The Theory of Relativity
Albert Einstein came to the conclusion that light behaves as both a wave and a particle, and its speed is constant. This was the beginning of the **Theory of Relativity**.
According to the theory, there is no absolute motion or fixed reference point. There is no time and space apart, but a space-time continuum. Mass and energy are interchangeable. This theory explains the accelerated motion of bodies, and in particular, gravity as a curvature of space-time.
New Ways of Thinking
In his general theory of everything, Einstein offered an interpretation of reality that recalls the desire of the first Greek philosophers to find the “arche” or constituent principle of all, a common primordial substance and founding of the plural forms that are identified at the level of immediate observation. However, it is not philosophically legitimate to extrapolate a definition from scientific theories, which are provisional. It is also not possible to offer a unique image of the world in a society as pluralistic and fragmented as the current one. But it is possible to indicate some trends in the understanding of reality and some ways of thinking.
A Dynamic Way of Thinking
The concept of area has undergone a radical change in relation to the previous story. It is going from a static and defined idea to another idea of matter as something dynamic and indeterminate. Matter cannot be extended only as a counterpoint to the senses, as mere mass or extension of bodies. It has energetic nature. In subatomic particles, the last component bodies are quanta of energy, vibrations formed in a field that these bodies also constitute. They are events or moments of the dynamism of matter – energy. This finding suggests a mindset that is also dynamic. More than things, there are processes. Reality must be understood from a processual standpoint. Everything is related. Each event is a reference to other events.
An Open Knowledge
The dual character, both dynamic and of matter, involves another important characterization: indeterminacy. The most powerful tool ultimately reveals matter, and still never in a univocal form. There is no world defined before our measurement. “It is given as” it is formed by measurement. The subject matter is the measure of radiation and observation, so it stands in creative activity. This is complemented by other knowledge of the scientist. The indeterminacy of the immensity of variables subject to certain situations makes it opaque and uncertain. The most recent theories of chaos consider it impossible to draw a unique evolution of an event developed by mathematical calculations.
An Interpretation System
(Everything is related to everything) The biological revolution shows the cosmos as a large system with emergent properties. Astrophysics and particle physics draw a continuum and homogeneity between the two extremes. The scales of life and consciousness appear as properties of a process encountered in self-organization and complexity of reality. The initial understanding of the phenomenon of human matter has to take into account this systemic nature of reality.