Absolute motion
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Einstein's theories of relativity eliminate the concept of absolute motion.
However, some alternative physical theories disgree.
Contrary to Einstein, is there such a thing as abolute motion?
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Christian views
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Secular views
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Secular views - process physics
- "Absolute rotational motion had been recognised as a meaningful and obervable phenomena from the very beginning of physics. Newton had used his rotating bucket experiment to illustrate the reality of absolute rotational motion, and later Foucault and Sagnac provided further experimental proof. But for absolute linear motion the history would turm out to be completely different. It was generally thought that absolute linear motion was undetectable, at least until Maxwell's electromagnetic theory appeared to require it. In perhaps the most bizarre sequence of events in modern science it turns out that absolute linear motion has been apparent within experimental data for over 100 years. It was missed in the first experiment designed to detect it and from then on for a variety of sociological reasons it became a concept rejected by physicists and banned from their journals despite continuing new experimental evidence. Those who pursued the scientific evidence were treated with scorn and ridicule. Even worse was the impasse that this obstruction of the scientific process resulted in, namely the halting of nearly all progress in furthering our understanding of the phenomena of gravity. For it is clear from all the experiments that were capable of detecting absolute motion that there is present in that data evidence of turbulence within the velocity field. Both the inflow itself and the turbulence are manifestations at a classical level of what is essentially quantum gravity processes."
