Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
1-2007
Abstract
The Western philosophical phenomenalism could be treated as a kind of philosophical basis of the special theory of relativity. The perceptual limitations of our senses hold the key to the understanding of relativistic postulates. The specialness of the speed of light in our phenomenal space and time is more a matter of our perceptual apparatus, than an input postulate to the special theory of relativity. The author believes that the parallels among the phenomenological, Western spiritual and the Eastern Advaita interpretations of special relativity point to an exciting possibility of unifying the Eastern and Western schools of thought to some extent.
Keywords
Relativity, Speed of Light, Phenomenalism, Advaita
Discipline
Physics
Publication
Omega: Indian Journal of Science and Religion
Volume
6
Issue
2
First Page
138
Last Page
150
Publisher
Institute of Science and Religion (Kerala)
Citation
THULASIDAS, Manoj.
The philosophy of special relativity: A comparison between Indian and Western interpretations. (2007). Omega: Indian Journal of Science and Religion. 6, (2), 138-150.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3514
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