Every revolution in this world has utterly affected mankind in those aspects of life which depend upon reason . so for as most of us are concerned the principle of relativity may seem a matter of small importance , dealing with infinitesimals which in the ordinary business of life are entirely inappreciable . it does disturb our general scientific methods. For mankind the sun continues to rise and set. We reckon the times and the seasons, as men have always done , and will do irrespective of any change which has taken place, or which may take place . Newton's law of inverse square will not cease to be a practical rule for experts ,engineers and machinations for all economic projects ,nor it will cease to commend itself by its simplicity, if Einstein's formula comes to be recognizable as theoretically perfect then its effect will be profound and far reaching. We can conclude therefore with an indication of some of these higher interests in the new principle.
It does seem that the new world-view must take the form of , and fine the imagery for , a new concept of the nature of continuity and infinity of the universe. In the world view as it has found expression in religion and philosophy hitherto the concept of infinity has been inseparably associated with the idea of space and time . "As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be , world without end,"
The mathematical definition of continuity and infinity is ,as we have seen , simply a precise form of expression for the spatial and temporal concepts , depends upon them for its applicability, and appeals exclusively to the pragmatic test. It is justified because it works. The new definition of relativity goes behind and beneath he mathematical definition of infinity , for it rejects the postulate on which it is based .
The infinity of the universe is based on the nature of life and consciousness. The principle of the relativity declares that there is no absolute magnitude , that there exists nothing which can claim to be great or small in its own nature ,also there is no absolute duration, nothing whatever which in its own nature is short or long. One can coordinate his universe from his standpoint of rest in a system of reference in relation to which all else is moving . That system may change and there is no limit to its change , its dimension remains constant though.
The system of reference appear to us to have practically everything in common and we are able to have intercourse with one another , to refer to the actual event as common. Whether the world is the condition of the existence of the world, we think of the world as common to all.
The thing passing to the new system of reference must therefore necessarily bring with its norm, the standard of its measurement in reference to which it judges objects to be small or great.
There are infect within our ordinary perspective myriads of subjects of experience ,if then one pass from one system to another it is certain that his space and time units must vary , for unless there is no conceivable way of effecting the exchange of standpoint. Now we have admitted that there are limits to our universe.
This is the way in which the infinity of universe presents itself to us when space and time are recognized as variable and not constant.
It will be said that we have not escaped from the dilemma of the old mathematical infinity, because though we may carry our norm of measurment as the inseprable adjunct of consciousness and vary our space and time through infinit change of system, the continuity of the universe can only be a continuity of consciousness. it is after all only for us that the standard is constant.
to an independent external observer one become lager or smaller absolutely ,but this idea that there can be an independent observer in an absolute system of refernce that the principle of relativity negatives and rejects.
We conclude, then, that in every reflection on our actual experiene we are directly conscious of an objectivity which we distinguish from our subjective activity of knowing. Whether the approach to the problem of that activity from the abstract point of physical science or from the concrete standpoint of phiosophy.carried to its logical conclusion the priciple of relativity leaves us without the image or the concept of pure objectivity. The ultimate reality of the universe , as philosophy apprehends it,is the activity which is menifested in life and mind, and the objectivity of the universe is not a dead core, but the perception-actions of infinite individual creative centres in mutual relation.
By:
Muhammad Sadiq
Baltistan
