New Ideas About the Structure of Reality, or How to Connect Relative Motion With an Absolute Reference Frame and Describe Relativistic Effects Without Einstein’s Postulates

Abstract

The paper presents a new approach to space-time problems that is completely different from the approach used for over 100 years. The essence of the changes are two new ideas that can be treated as a complement to the theory of relativity. The first is the description of reality as a four-dimensional Euclidean space. What we observe as space-time dimensions are directions in objective (Euclidean) space, and these directions are not constant but depend on the pair of bodies – the observer and the observed body. Depending on the choice of body pair, the same direction in objective Euclidean space can be interpreted as a temporal or spatial dimension of the observer’s coordinate system. The new model allows the body to be described directly as a wave and allows for a connection of the ideas of absolute space and the relativity of motion. The second idea binds the transmission of signals (quanta) to the systems of sending and receiving particles. As a result, the motion of the quantum is always constant in the system of the sending and receiving particle. This justifies the constancy of the speed of light regardless of the relative velocity of the bodies. Quanta are no longer independent particles but are disturbances of particles, which are treated as waves. The proposed changes simplify the description of relativistic phenomena, eliminate the need to apply Einstein’s postulates by introducing mechanisms describing the relative motion and propagation of quantum, bind the description of relativistic and quantum phenomena by describing bodies directly as waves, extend the range of phenomena described within one model and solve many problems impossible to solve within the theory of relativity. The paper compares the descriptions of particular problems in the Theory of Relativity with the descriptions of the same issues in the new model. In most cases, the predictions of both models are similar, but the differences in the construction of the models give different conclusions in some cases, which is the basis for proposing specific experiments allowing verification of the proposed approach. Some of the proposed experiments can be carried out with the use of existing experimental devices.