Category:
Research Papers
Sub-Category:
Relativity Theory
Date Published:
March 18, 2024
Keywords:
Galileo Galilei, history of science, preinertia, absolute motion, relative motion, special relativity
Abstract:
Although he did not give it a specific name, Galileo introduced the concept of preinertia in his refutation of Aristotelian natural motion. Unfortunately, that is where the history of this concept begins and ends, although it is far from being an irrelevant concept. In fact, preinertia proves, among other things, the impossibility of detecting any possible absolute motion. And it also proves another result about the relative/absolute nature of motion, the importance of which cannot be overstated.
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