Rationalist vs Empiricists: Matter of Definition By Greg Volk COFE4 DOWNLOAD

Many significant problems in physics remain unsolved not merely for lack of clever mathematics or even agood theory, but for lack of a proper paradigm behind the mathematics. Therefore, this paper examines the definitions of several fundamental properties such as space, time, energy, field, force, mass, entropy and temperature, suggestingfundamentally new ways of understanding them all. Also the quadratic nature of energy defined as relationship naturallyleads to a distinction between self energy within objects and interaction energy between objects. This distinction admitsnew definitions of entropy and temperature, based on the unavoidable cross terms inherent in any quadratic formulation.