Andrew Wutke

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Is clock rate the same everywhere on the equator ignoring imperfections?

It is said that Earth shape is roughly gravitational equi-potential surface and clock rate change due to change of the radius of rotation is compensated. But the tangential velocity component...

11 November 2018 1,164 6 View

Is common sense nothing but a deposit of prejudices?

The famous quote attributed to Einstein: Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen. So it seems this asset of human intelect has no...

11 November 2016 7,214 1 View

What is the relationship between Maxwell equations and an emitted photon?

This is not something you can find clearly stated. If photon is a particle then it should be not applicable, but in the double slit experiment a photon interferes with itself. But if this is the...

08 August 2015 692 38 View

Is Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Time prepared for resurection of absolute simultaneity?

It is not a rhetorical question. Many years of debates led by Hans Reichenbach and Adolf Grunbaum and their followers ended up in resignation by accepting the conventionality thesis. Early...

08 August 2015 9,290 23 View

Is science serious allowing time travel as a viable reality?

The idea of time travel is a nice subject in science fiction but science makes little effort to rule this out. When Gödel obtained time like closed worldlines from general relativity, he thought...

12 December 2014 9,419 20 View

Does relative simultaneity in STR imply alternate temporal realities or just a clock synchronisation effect in one reality?

I am genuinely interested in opinions on this to support or abandon my study, draft report of which is published in my ResearchGate page. Relative simultaneity is a landmark outcome of Special...

11 November 2014 5,892 2 View