Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Absolutely, it's all relative


You saw it here first folks (well second actually because it was posted on the sublimely rich and wonderful arXiv.org first).

Jean-Marc Oury and Bruno Heintz's paper titled The Absolute Relativity Theory, brings you the first "presentation of a new approach of physics, that we propose to refer to as the Absolute Relativity Theory."

What does that mean? Well their abstract explains:
"This approach is founded on the refutation of the old idea that our universe can be seen as a space-time, whatever structure it is equipped with, that contains or supports “observers” and “observables”. Instead, the theory begins by exploring what should be, from an algebraic point of view, a consistent theory able to represent the “observation” processes and, in some sense, as complete as possible."

It is a 70-page behemoth but I thought you would all be interested. Once I make my way through it all I will break it down for you as best I can, it may take a while though as it is really hard to turn pages without fingers. Lucky bastards you human.

3 comments:

  1. It's total genius! MOMA is Museum Of Modern Art, the acronym of Absolute Relativity Theory is ART, and the main statement is: "In the ART framework, the way the observables do appear to observers does not only depend on their relative positions and motions, but also on the type of each observer." Which, in the ART framework, is definitely true!

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  2. McTavish,

    any lightning for the layman ?
    While the categorical approach seems to be extremelly original (using sets of morphisms from observed objets to observing ones as THE defining reality), the abstract math involved (quasi-Hopf, yangian algebra) are hard to swallow....

    also the claimed MQT (Mass Quantification theory), said to be able to derived particles mass & constants value from ART would need some explanations for the every-day man

    please any help ?

    (also : why isn't there much reaction on the scientific blogosphere on ART ?)

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