As I will state throughout the content of this book, it aims to accommodate strictly rational thinking, with concepts such as limitlessness, infinity, eternity and divinity, by accessing a mechanism specific to reason, despite the fact that there is no absolute certainty in terms of truth, in such an approach. In this way, there may be for those who engage in such an approach, a reassuring variant regarding the much-used question: How is knowledge possible?
In this writing, I have approached an explanatory variant, in the idea enunciated by Hume, according to which such an approach should be carried out within the limits imposed by the science of the moment with reference to Newtonian physics. My approach was made through this legislative limitation, imposed by research in the field of physics, without going into details and without using specific mathematical language to a very small extent, in order to make the reading more accessible. I must specify that Hume was referring to the limitations imposed by Newtonian mechanics, a reference made obviously to the latest major discoveries of the moment. In the present work, without giving up the principle issued by Hume, I had to take into account subsequent discoveries and specifically discoveries in relativistic physics. Things are viewed starting from a simple logic, approaching knowledge that relates to an understanding within natural sensitive limits and framed in a logical mechanism of the same manner, there being no need to understand what is inserted here, of in-depth studies in the field of physics, trying in this way to give interpretations that are understandable to everyone, to things that seem complicated at first glance.
Foreword /9
Chapter 1
On Perception/11
Chapter 2
On Relativity/14
Chapter 3
Some Observations on Four-Dimensional Space/21
Chapter 4
Preliminary Considerations on Dynamics/24
Chapter 5
The Evans Experiment/33
Chapter 6
The Michelson Morley Experiment/37
Chapter 7
The Minkowski Relation/40
Chapter 8
The speed with which the observer's consciousness moves along the time axis/43
Chapter 9
Preliminary observations on how the observer sees the surrounding universe/47
Chapter 10
Definition of the quantities direction of existence, meaning of existence, speed of existence, duration of existence/61
Chapter 11
Speed of existence/72
Chapter 12
Composition of speeds of existence/75
Chapter 13
On speed in general/84
Chapter 14
The inertial value of mass/88
Chapter 15
The electrical dimension and the gravitational dimension/93
Chapter 16
Definition of the straight line, the generalized principle of inertia/104
Chapter 17
The inability of the rational to demonstrate absolute truth/124
Chapter 18
On reference systems/132
Chapter 19
On truth/138
Chapter 20
On the existential triangle and divinity/142
Chapter 21
On time and the perpendicular universe/151
Author's afterword/163
Bibliography/178