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It's not relational. There's several rigorous proofs against Spinoza's relational theory. Namely that of Kant and Einstein: "even if space is composed of nothi
by ethn 3y ago
It's not relational. There's several rigorous proofs against Spinoza's relational theory. Namely that of Kant and Einstein:
"even if space is composed of nothing but relations between observers and events, it would be conceptually possible for all observers to agree on their measurements, whereas relativity implies they will disagree" [0]
0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_space https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_space
- ImHereToVote 3y agoUnless one of the observers accelerates for some reason. Now his observation is privileged.
- lgas 3y agoDoesn't relativity mean there's no difference between that observer accelerating in one direction and everything else accelerating in the opposite direction? So wouldn't everyone's observation be equally privileged? I'm asking honestly as am (obviously) not a physicist.
- ImHereToVote 3y agoYou would think so, but no. There is something magical about acceleration, specifically how much spacetime you increasingly or decreasingly traverse.