Einstein's Postulates (1 Viewer)

[LIV/////]

For our assessment we need to analyse and evaluate Einstein's postulates (both for and against).

I understand all the reasons for, but am struggling to understand why there would be negative areas to them. Is this to do with people still believing Newtonian physics concepts of relativity or that they are contradictory (this doesn't seem like a negative though)??

 

[blyatman]

That sounds super vague, what is the full question? The "for" part sounds like it would be from a scientific point of view, whereas the against part sounds like it would be from a social contextual point of view... which wouldn't really make sense since you're arguing 2 totally different topics.

 

[LIV/////]

That sounds super vague, what is the full question? The "for" part sounds like it would be from a scientific point of view, whereas the against part sounds like it would be from a social contextual point of view... which wouldn't really make sense since you're arguing 2 totally different topics.

Question is 'Analyse and evaluate the evidence for and against Einstein's two postulates'

 

[Drdusk]

The reason Einstein's postulates are so highly regarded is because there is no 'evidence' against them.

 

[jazz519]

In terms of against it is correct there is nothing scientifically speaking against them but I think what your question is asking is sort of maybe the history aspect of it

So maybe for that against bit you just discuss other competing theories so like for the transmission of light in a vacuum it used to be the aether (look into Michelson-morley experiment) (which was proved wrong by Einstein later through his postulate that the speed of light is constant for all observers regardless of their state of motion relative to the source)

Then for the particle model of light consisting of a stream of photons say the competing theory was light as a wave (as shown in experiments such as the double slit interference, diffraction and polarisation). which show light as being a wave, but then that's also resolved in De Broglie's dual nature of matter-waves. That everything has a wave aspect to it which is fundamental in all of quantum mechanics

 

[blyatman]

Yeh there's no scientific evidence against his postulates. The only thing against was really the attitude other scientists of that time. The question seems rather pointless and doesn't make any sense. There's literally only for points, and no against lol. To date, relativity has passed every experimental and observational test thrown at it.