Earlier, a cosmology with changing physical values for the gravitational constant G was proposed by P.A.M. Dirac in 1937. Field theories applying this principle have been proposed by P. Jordan and D.W. Sciama and in 1961 by C. Brans and R.H. Dicke. According to these theories the value of G is diminishing. Brans and Dicke […]
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We measure position, which is the distance from a fixed reference point in different coordinates, by a tape of unit distance from one end point to the other end point or its sub-divisions. We measure mass by comparing it with another unit mass. We measure time, which is the interval between events by a clock,
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When one talks about what an electron is “doing”, one implies what sort of a wave function is associated with it. But the wave function is not a physical object in the sense a proton or an electron or a billiard ball. In fact, the rules of quantum theory do not even allot a unique
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Prima facie, what Einstein and his colleagues argued was that under ideal conditions, observation (includes measurement) functions like a mirror reflecting an independently existing, external reality. The specific criterion for describing reality characterizes it in terms of objectivity understood as independence from any direct measurement. This implies that, when a direct measurement of physical reality
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In modern science, there is no unambiguous and precise definition of the words time, space, dimension, numbers, zero, infinity, charge, quantum particle, wave-function etc. The operational definitions have been changed from time to time to take into account newer facts that facilitate justification of the new “theory”. For example, the fundamental concept of the quantum
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