Statistical Relativity Elections

by Richard Lung

Overview

Physics, the romance of how the world works (with perhaps a clue to why we are here) interpreted by a long-time reader of popular expositions, without benefit of class instructions or personal tuition. (It was left to my intuition.) Like Don Quixote, whose head was turned by reading too many romances, I developed unconventional ideas. I never thought that I would write a book on physics. I was well aware, from the start, that the professionals are authoritative on conventional physics, which I generally accept.
My background is in social science. I did not take much to the presentation of the social part of the course, as to the lesser part, the science, especially the statistics, which is the approach I take to both relativity theory and electoral method. These two subjects have received my amateur attentions thru-out a working life-time (and beyond).
Basically, on one quite simple point do I disagree with physics tradition, the Michelson-Morley calculation, contradicted, by the famous experiment -- and by my own use of a different average.
The calculation was patched-up with the so-called Fitzgerald-Lorentz contraction (read: correction) factor or gamma factor. (Corrections are inevitable. I must have made scores of errors in my own working. This book is open to corrections, criticisms and comments. Only the caldera chapter has been independently checked.)
To replace the ad hoc gamma factor, I invoked the principle of Least Action. All local reference frames in high energy physics are unprivileged. They amount to a random distribution, which forms the graphical area under the path of least action as a normal curve.
Special relativity is based on a symmetry principle (so-called rotational symmetry of the Minkowski Interval) that there is no privileged view-point of events. Local observations, of a given event, take particular measures of space and time, but ultimately they are the same metric of a unified space-time.
A theme, by this amateur or naive physicist, is to extend the symmetry principle. By adding a damping factor to the Interval, and comparing the new result with the old, magnitude symmetry is added to rotational symmetry, to create vector symmetry, with an extension to its corresponding conservation law, from angular momentum to vector momentum.
Another extension, from the Michelson-Morley experiment (MMX), for instance, to the LISA project, is a sine-generalised Interval to non-perpendicular frames of reference.
The Minkowski Interval correctly predicts the Michelson-Morley experiment result of equal times, taken by the perpendicular light beams. It is conjectured that this equality of times is formally similar to the Einstein Equivalence principle of the equality of masses, gravitational and inertial. Hence, he Minkowski Michelson-Morley clock of the universe (M3) only shows absolute time in perpendicular frames of reference. Likewise for absolute mass.
In special relativity, kinematics, as of time, and dynamics, as of mass, are formally the same. Hence, the sine-generalised (All-angles) Interval should apply to an Extra Einstein Equivalence principle (E3), where non-perpendicular reference frames do not give equality of gravitational and inertial masses, just as they do not give equality of times.
A comprehensive comparison between special relativity and electoral method is enabled, once two-dimensional voting is introduced (FAB STV 2-D), because then both sciences, Physics and Electics, are on the same footing of using complex variables. A formal similarity of kinematics and dynamics, in special relativity, can be elucidated by a formal similarity between voting with ones hands, on the ballot paper, and voting with ones feet, by moving between electoral districts or constituencies.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940163429172
Publisher:	Richard Lung
Publication date:	12/27/2019
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

My later years acknowledge the decisive benefit of the internet and the web in allowing me the possibility of publication, therefore giving the incentive to learn subjects to write about them.
I have been the author of the Democracy Science website since 1999. This combined scientific research with democratic reform.

While, from my youth, I acknowledge the intellectual debt that I owed a social science degree, while coming to radically disagree, even as a student, with its out-look and aims.

Whereas from middle age, I acknowledge how much I owed to the friendship of Dorothy Cowlin, largely the subject of my e-book, Dates and Dorothy. This is the second in a series of five books of my collected verse. Her letters to me, and my comments came out, in: Echoes of a Friend.....

Authors have played a big part in my life.
Years ago, two women independently asked me: Richard, don't you ever read anything but serious books?
But Dorothy was an author who influenced me personally, as well as from the written page. And that makes all the difference.

I have only become a book author myself, on retiring age, starting at stopping time!