Idealism is the theory that historically followed upon with Descartes understanding of knowledge, whereby the knower creates the object known. For example, in knowing the tree, the knower creates the tree. Idealism is false, for the knower does not create the tree, but receives the form of the tree, from the tree as the object of knowledge. Also Descarte's version of knowledge whereby the knower only knows an idea of the tree and not the tree, is also false. For the tree is known objectively, through the idea, as the formal concept, whereby the tree is presented as an object of knowledge. Descarte's theory of knowledge as a quasi-idealist theory, whereby the tree as known, is reduced down to the act of the observer, is false.
So too analogously, special relativity reduces the motion of light to an absolute for any circumstance. The earth-centered universe of the ancients is transformed into the light centered universe of relativity theory. In reducing the universe from earth-centered, to light centered, relativity reduces the universe to an observer-centered universe, whereby the entire universe of the individual conforms to the individual's motion. One can introduce, or remove the aether at will, as postulated by SR and GR respectively. One can postulate length change and time dilation at will to conform to the observer who sees light.
So too analogously, special relativity reduces the motion of light to an absolute for any circumstance. The earth-centered universe of the ancients is transformed into the light centered universe of relativity theory. In reducing the universe from earth-centered, to light centered, relativity reduces the universe to an observer-centered universe, whereby the entire universe of the individual conforms to the individual's motion. One can introduce, or remove the aether at will, as postulated by SR and GR respectively. One can postulate length change and time dilation at will to conform to the observer who sees light.
The light is seen by the observer at c, when not in an accelerating reference frame, but at any velocity, when in an accelerating reference frame. In effect, all physics in the universe is dictated mathematically by the ubiquitous observer. In reducing all the maths of physical reality down to that of the observer, it is the observer who (almost) creates the object observed, whereby the object known is subject to the mathematical manipulation of the observer. In doing so, the knower modifies the object of knowledge from the real, down to what is dictated by relativity theory. Such a manipulation of the object of knowledge is a form of quasi-idealism.
As quasi-idealism is false, therefore because relativity is quasi-idealist, then so too Special relativity is false.
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