True Motion and the Infinite Material Universe

by Rene Descartes Icon

2 minutes • 375 words

Table of contents

24. What is motion?
25. What is true motion?

24. What is motion?

There is only local motion*.

Superphysics Note

Descartes’ classical locality is totally different from modern locality which is really Einstein locality. Classical Locality is a philosphical concept applied to Physics. It asserts that there is is no void – things affect each other through an immaterial medium called the aether. Einstein Locality is a sophistical concept arising from Einstein’s invention of a material spacetime that limits everything to the speed of light. We assert that the Bell Theorem totally debunks Einstein’s Relativity which imposes Einstein’s Locality (spacetime fabric) and Realism (hidden variables). The successful tests of General Relativity, much applauded by Physicists, are merely tests of equipment.

Local motion is the action by which a body migrates from one place to another.

Therefore, the same body changes place [from one perspective] and does not change place [from another perspective] at the same time.

Thus, it can also be said to be moving [from one perspective] and not moving [from another perspective] .

For example, one who sits in a ship departing from port thinks he is moving if he looks at the shores. But he is not moving if he looks at the ship itself which he is a part of.

We commonly think:

there is action in all motion
no action in rest

The person thus seated is more properly said to be at rest than in motion, seeing he is not conscious of being in action.*

Superphysics Note

This destroys the assertion of General Relativity that everything is in motion.

25. What is true motion?

True motion is THE TRANSLATION OF A WHOLE BODY (with its parts) FROM THE VICINITY OF THOSE BODIES AT REST THAT ARE IN IMMEDIATE CONTACT WITH IT, to the vicinity of other bodies.

The body might consist of many parts which have other motions within themselves.

True motion is a translation, not a force or action that transfers.

Therefore, true motion is always in the moving object, not in the mover.

This is because these two are not usually distinguished accurately.

Motion is merely a mode of the body just as:

shape is the mode of a shaped thing
rest is the mode of a resting thing.

It is not an inherent quality.