Re: Is Curved Space An Improvement Over The Use of the Concept of Forces?

On Sun, 17 Nov 2024 7:50:42 +0000, ProkaryoticCaspaseHomolog wrote:

On Sat, 16 Nov 2024 23:48:09 +0000, LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:
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Is Curved Space An Improvement Over The Use of the Concept of Forces?

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No. The historical issue of the problems with the concept of force has
not been addressed by the concept of curved space. Curved spacetime or
curved space does not provide a causative mechanism better than the
concept of forces. It provides none at all.

Is spacetime really curved?

Space is not curved. That is purely a reification fallacy.
Spacetime is a non-Euclidean fiction.

  1) Is it possible to represent general relativity in terms of flat
     spacetime?

The flat spacetime paradigm posits that matter creates a gravitational
field that causes rulers to shrink when they are turned from
circumferential orientation to radial, and that causes the ticking
rates of clocks to dilate. The flat spacetime paradigm is fully
equivalent to the curved spacetime paradigm in that they both
represent the same physical phenomena.

Newtonian "flat" Euclidean space does not involve rulers shrinking or
length contraction, which is merely a reification fallacy. It does not
involve time dilation, which is pure fiction because there is no force
common to all processes such that changes in it can cause all rates of
change to change in unison.
Ross said: "The space-time curvature is a mere mental model
to effect to reflect a milieu of "gravity" in a theory
with massy bodies and a universal law of gravitation."
Mild Shock said: "Issac Newton: If a thing isn't moving, then it
probably won't move unless something moves it"