THEORY OF RELATIVITY: METHODOLOGICAL EFFICIENCY AND ONTOLOGICAL DIFFICULTIES
Vladimir Ivanovich Krasikov
Research Centre, Russian State University of Justice, Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, Ozerkovskaya nab. d.8-14, str.1, 37
Keywords: relativism, methodology, ontological schemes, special theory of relativity, general theory of relativity, principle of relativity, speed of light, space and time, standards for describing reality
Abstract
The article attempts to demonstrate the relationship between the methodological and epistemological hypotheses of the theory of relativity and numerous relativistic pictures of the world that subsequently appeared. For this purpose, the ontological consequences following from the three main Einsteinian assumptions are ordered. Numerous scenarios of the development of the Universe based on the relativist ontological scheme show some immanent difficulties associated with the methodological primacy of their source. For instance, the relativistic theory does not proceed from the deduction of the content of physical experiments, but rests on the results of rather speculative experiments. Therefore, it cannot set certain clear horizons of existence, but provokes a vast metaphysical multi-variance. Thus, relativism appeared as a result of sophisticated constructive speculation and represents a paradoxical contradiction between its methodological usefulness and the ontological difficulties it causes.
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