Can there be any motion or relation without an experience in which a sense 
of motion or relation is literally encountered?


On Sunday, February 23, 2014 9:37:46 AM UTC-5, Edgar L. Owen wrote:
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> All,
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> Here's one more theory from my book on Reality:
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> All forms of mass and energy are just different forms of relative motion. 
> They actually have to be different forms of the same thing for there to be 
> mass-energy conservation, and different forms of relative motion are what 
> they are.
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> Rest mass in this theory is just vibrational motion. It is relative 
> motion, but since this relative motion is so spatially confined, it appears 
> the same to all external observers. It is equally relative to all 
> observers, thus it appears absolute in having the same value relative to 
> all observers. Thus rest mass is the same to all observers, even though it 
> is actually relative motion.
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> This is somewhat similar to string theory's notion of particles as 
> vibrating strings. But in my theory the vibration itself is not the 
> particle and there is no need for extra dimensions. In my theory, the 
> vibration takes place in ordinary 3D space and represents only the mass of 
> the particle. Only in 3D space is it interconvertible to other 3D relative 
> motions.
>
> [In my theory particles themselves are composed of their particle 
> properties (not vibrating strings), one of which is mass-energy, but that's 
> another part of the theory I won't get into in this post.]
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> So in this theory the conversion of mass to energy is quite simple. It's 
> just the conversion of the equivalent amount of vibrational motion into 
> either the relative linear motion of kinetic energy and/or the relative 
> wave motion of EM energy.
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> This theory neatly conceptually unifies all forms of mass and energy, and 
> the conversion of one form to another as simply the conversion of one form 
> of relative motion to an equivalent amount of another.
>
> All other forms of energy neatly conform to this explanation including 
> what we call potential energy which is really just an accounting trick. 
> What we call potential energy is actually just some form of blocking (or 
> impinging) energy from a system external to the system under consideration. 
> To just analyze the system itself, we imagine a potential energy IN the 
> system equivalent to the actual blocking energy outside the system. It just 
> makes things easier to analyze. So potential energy is not a real form of 
> energy, not a real relative motion, but an accounting trick to confine 
> analysis to an isolated system when systems are not actually energetically 
> isolated from their environments.
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> Edgar
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