TITLE:
Comparative Ontology of Theories of Space and Time
AUTHORS:
Edwin Eugene Klingman
KEYWORDS:
Spacetime Ontology, Comparative Ontology, Local Absolute Space, Relativistic Mass
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Modern Physics,
Vol.14 No.4,
March
23,
2023
ABSTRACT: With a few exceptions, physics theories are based in a conception of time and space; our two major theories, general relativity, and quantum field theory, differ in their conceptions. Key issues herein include mathematics, logic, intuition, experiment, and ontology, with emphasis on simultaneity and dimensionality of the world. The treatment is through ontological comparison of two theories, space-time theory (special relativity) and energy-time theory (local absolute space and universal time). These two theories share many of the same equations but have different ontology.