There is no problem more difficult to solve than that created by ourselves — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“Subjectivity is strange to Science, while Relativity is an objective part of it.” — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“It is not the reverence for words, but for their meaning that determines our deepness of comprehension of a given assertion about… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“The command of our language is crucial to focusing our thoughts and communicating them with precision to others.” — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“Without causality in the world, there is no point in educating people, or making any moral or political appeal.” — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“It is curious that the human mind could blindly accept an infinite speed but had reservations to accept a finite one, simply… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“Truth is not as pompous and romantic as myth ... but it has the immeasurable value of being the Truth.” — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“Is numerical equality (forced by the use of specific physical units) the same as conceptual equality? Of course NOT!” — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“The present is not an instant shared by all space, but an event, i.e. an instant at a place in space.” — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“To believe in nothing is as ridiculous as to believe in everything. Reason and factual evidence may convert a belief into knowledge.” — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“... One can know very much but comprehend very little and, besides, ... different objectives require different levels of knowledge - though… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“Why is it so difficult for us to think in relative terms? Well, for the good reason that human nature loves absoluteness,… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“After some cogitation, it is difficult not to agree with Herman Bondi (1919 - 2005), who in his book 'Relativity and Common… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“Teaching the layperson (divulgare) is not distorting (tergiversare) the subject, but educating the public; and it is our duty as scientists to… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“When we say two bodies 'touch', what we mean (without knowing it) is that both electromagnetic fields are interacting to avoid physical… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“The objective and merit of Einstein's theory is to identify those physical magnitudes which are absolute, i.e. common for all Inertial Frames,… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“Both space and time are metrically amorphous, i.e. they do not have - despite how strongly we believe so - an inherent… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“So strong was the preconception of absolute space and time in the scientific mentality of those days, that Lorentz did not realize… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“The difference between Lorentz's Transformation in Lorentz's theory and Lorentz's Transformation in Einstein's Special Relativity is not mathematical but ontological and epistemological… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“The universal character of the centrifugal forces leaves us impotent as to discern whether what is going on inside the carrousel is… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“It is worth noting that a wrong folkoric definition of an Inertial Frame in the Popular Science literature (even in text books)… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“One of the various theories proposed to explain the negative result of the famous Michelson-Morley experiment with light waves (conceived to measure… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“It is also worth noting that the earth gravitational field though locally ‘vertical’ is globally radial as the centrifugal field in the… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“As we already pointed out, 'special' means 'restricted to Inertial Frames of Reference', i.e. this theory cannot describe the Universe from an… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“A good part of what appears to us - prima facie - as objective reality is, instead, just a consequence of our… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“Such is how Science makes progress: not destroying the past, but learning from it, and building on it.” — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“If Relativity Theory kills our deepest convictions, why not start by finding out why we believed in them for millennia?” — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“Einstein's theory, experimentally corroborated for the last hundred years, regardless of how outlandish and opposed to our prejudices (disguised as they are… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“The existence of both ( electron and pebble ) depends upon the context created by our thoughts, our language, our theories, and… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“The notion of Local Inertial Frame is crucial to understanding Nature and, in particular, General Relativity. Notwithstanding, very few popular science books… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“The past and the future are not a collection of instants shared by all space, but a collection of events that correspond… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“Why is it so difficult for us to think in relative terms? Well, for the good reason that human nature loves absoluteness, and erroneously… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share
“The past and the future are not a collection of instants shared by all space, but a collection of events that correspond to a… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share
“The universal character of the centrifugal forces leaves us impotent as to discern whether what is going on inside the carrousel is because we… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share
“It is curious that the human mind could blindly accept an infinite speed but had reservations to accept a finite one, simply because it… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share
“The command of our language is crucial to focusing our thoughts and communicating them with precision to others.” — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share
“The existence of both ( electron and pebble ) depends upon the context created by our thoughts, our language, our theories, and our interaction… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share
“It is worth noting that a wrong folkoric definition of an Inertial Frame in the Popular Science literature (even in text books) reads that… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share
“The objective and merit of Einstein's theory is to identify those physical magnitudes which are absolute, i.e. common for all Inertial Frames, distinguishing them… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share
“When we say two bodies 'touch', what we mean (without knowing it) is that both electromagnetic fields are interacting to avoid physical interpenetration and… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share
“So strong was the preconception of absolute space and time in the scientific mentality of those days, that Lorentz did not realize the grand… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share
“Both space and time are metrically amorphous, i.e. they do not have - despite how strongly we believe so - an inherent metric which… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share
“Subjectivity is strange to Science, while Relativity is an objective part of it.” — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share
“It is not the reverence for words, but for their meaning that determines our deepness of comprehension of a given assertion about Nature.” — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share
“The present is not an instant shared by all space, but an event, i.e. an instant at a place in space.” — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share
“Without causality in the world, there is no point in educating people, or making any moral or political appeal.” — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share
