A New Gravitational Paradigm for Relativity and Dynamics, and its Philosophical Scope

Abstract

The present framework of dynamics and relativity is based on Albert Einstein’s special and general theories of relativity. However, the empty featureless space and its time that are assumed in constructing these theories are in direct conflict with the reality of the vast universe with enormous quantity of matter-energy and its gravity. Gravitational interaction affects spatio-temporal intervals and dynamics in general. Since all the physical phenomena as well as the theories that attempt to describe them are operative in this single real universe, really existing as given, the factual gravitational background of cosmic matter should be the inseparable basis of our theories of relativity and dynamics. After proving the need for a new paradigm of relativity and dynamics based on cosmic gravity, I will outline the empirically consistent theory and its crucial experimental support. I will show that the factual results on the one-way propagation of light and relativistic motional corrections of clocks contradict the current theoretical framework. The gravitational paradigm, called Cosmic Relativity, is Galilean and Machian, and includes all relativistic physical effects, with the universe as the determining master frame. It accords a physical measure of real motion and also, a universal time. Most importantly, Cosmic Relativity is in perfect agreement with all known experimental results. These remarkable developments in physics support and vindicate Henri Bergson’s criticism of Einstein’s theory and his philosophical stand on the notions of universal time and absolute simultaneity.