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Einstein’s approach
and assumptions
Introduction of the concepts of
Creative Relativity and individuate points of consciousness
Around 1905, at about age
twenty-six, Albert Einstein provided the physic community with an
explanation of the phenomenon of light propagation that shook the
prevailing physics view. Einstein’s work focused on
electromagnetic radiation and an explanation the negative
results of what was called the Michelson experiment was constructed
to measure the effects of what was called the “world ether” on the
velocity of light caused by the light’s movement through the ether.
Einstein’s explanation and understanding was one of the several
catalysts which revolutionized physics and the understanding of the
nature of the physical world.
Einstein’s thinking began with the wave nature of
light or lectromagnetic radiation. Visible light as we see light
is only a narrow portion of the entire electromagnetic spectrum.
When the wave nature of light was established in the 1800’s,
physicists explained light waves the way they explained water waves.
Light waves were seen analogous to a ripple on a pond created when
we drop a pebble into the pond. In the same way a pebble dropped in
water pushed the water’s surface to create a wave, pushing or
accelerating an electron was seen as creating a wave in the
electromagnetic field which permeated the universe. By using this
water wave analogy, physicists in the 1800’s had to contend with
explaining and describing the medium, or the material equivalent to
the water. There had to be some in which these electromagnetic waves
would be carried and propagated
The answer at the time was a theorized medium known as the “light
ether” or “world ether.” The existence of this material to propagate
light meant that the planets and other celestial bodies would be
affected by this material as they moved through space. An
experiment, eventually known as the Michelson experiment, was
constructed to measure the effects of this ether on the velocity of
light caused by movement of light through the ether. The results of
this experiment were negative and posed significant problems for
explaining how light was propagated. Without a mediation in which
the waves could propagate, there should be no electromagnetic
radiation.
The negative results of this experiment were subsequently explained
by Einstein in when he rejected the entire idea of a world ether and
returned to the idea of completely empty space. It is to be noted
that returning to an “old” idea is not antithetical to leaps of
creative thought. Instead of trying to patch up and fix the
accumulating difficulties with the “ether” concept, he rejected it
outright. However, along with rejecting the notion of a world ether
also went the concept of the existence of “absolute motion.”
Absolute motion can be seen as the equivalent of absolute truth or
as a reference standard to which all else can be compared. The
concept of absolute motions was essentially foundation concept of
the “world ether.”
The concept of “absolute motion” arose because the “world ether,”
which theoretically permeated all of reality, would be a universal
reference system for the motion of all material bodies through
space. That is, any motion in any part of the either could be
compared to the stationary ether. What Einstein basically said was
that we could only talk about motion of one object relative to the
motion of another object. He said that the basic laws of physics
should be the same no matter what reference system was used in
studying the laws of physics. Hence the name of theory, the “theory
of relativity.”
This theory basically states that there is no such thing as absolute
motion. There is only relative motion of one object in relationship
to another object. This also means that it is impossible to detect
the motion of one system relative to the motion of another system by
performing some physical measurement in each system and then
comparing the results expecting to see a difference representative
of that relative motion. What this means is, a ball rolling across a
table will look just the same whether the room in which the ball and
the table are located is moving at a constant velocity or at rest.
As to light itself, since there was no “world ether” or medium to
allow the vibrations, Einstein postulated there was an independent
physical reality to the electromagnetic field that generated the
photon. This meant the prevailing view that the electromagnetic
field surrounding a electric charge or magnet represented a
deformation in a universal medium extending in all directions gave
way to the view that the field of the magnet and electric charge
were now physical entities themselves and thinned out to zero at
great distances away from the magnet or the charge. In the same way
light was previously considered as a vibration inserted into the
medium of the “world ether,” light was now considered as a lump, a
quantum or a packet of energy of the vibrating electromagnetic field
unto itself, moving freely through space and thinning out to zero at
infinity. This meant that when the a charged particle was
accelerated, the waves that rippled out in the electromagnetic field
would be seen as independent packets of energy called quanta. These
waves were pure energy. They acted like particles, but being pure
energy, had no mass.
One key spin-off of this theory (ascribing an independent physical
reality to a static and vibrating electromagnetic field) was that
this packet or quantum of energy would contain a momentum and a mass
reflective of the amount of energy it carried. This was subsequently
demonstrated as true and that the energy of the particle was equal
to the mass of the particle times the speed of light squared, the
famous E=MC2. This realization was also the foundation of the
understanding that vast amounts of energy could be released in the
conversion of mass into energy, which subsequently lead to the
nuclear reactor (a controlled energy release) and the nuclear bomb
(a directed uncontrolled energy release). A nuclear accident would
be an uncontrolled release of nuclear energy.
The implications of Einstein’s work on the material in the Releasing
Your Unlimited Creativity technology is seen in two ways. One way it
is applicable to creativity is to break a
mind set, you must step out of the mind that created the
problem. The second way Einstein’s work is applicable is that there
are four insights that can be used to understanding how we create
both our experiences and the reality of those experiences.
The four insights are as follows:
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There is no absolute motion
and no universal or absolute reference frame. Each photon, each
packet of energy, is independent of another.
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A photon, a packet of
electromagnetic energy, is a physical reality and its
electromagnetic field thins out to zero at great distances away
from the center of the vibration or source or center of the
energy.
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The laws of physics are the
same in any reference frame such that any two of these
independent packets of energy will obey the same laws of physics
since each could be considered an independent frame of
reference.
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Mass is one form of energy and
can be converted to the another under the proper conditions.
These four insight by Einstein
have profound implications within the
Energy Consciousness Model for how we create our experience.
Because energy and consciousness are seen as one and the same and
only perceived differently, these four insights are directly
translated into consciousness. As applied to consciousness, their
implications have significantly impacts our creativity ability. The
applications of these four insights to creativity are discussed in
the topic “A Different Application if Enstein’s Assumptions.”
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A Different Application if Enstein’s Assumptions
Mind set and tunnel vision
The Bohr challenge
Creative relativity
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