FROM CLASSICAL MECHANICS TO MODERN INTERPRETATIONS
Abstract
Motion is simply the manner in which objects transform their location with time. In this paper I have provided a brief overview of the theories explaining motion, its history starting with the ancient conceptions of Galileo and Newton and all the way up to the relativity theory of Einstein and the modern quantum mechanics. Considering the approach of kinematics, dynamics, and the more recent theories, I would like to show how our understanding of motion has evolved to become so simple and super complex so as to enable us know the large as well as the tiny particles in the universe. Once we have discussed the classical era we move on to the major paradigm shifts of the 20th century which actually broke the biscuit of the Newtonian worldview. Starting with Einstein Special and General Relativity, which disturbed the concept of absolute simultaneity. Relativity is a vivid picture of a dynamic and interwoven space in which the speed of light remains the same to all people, and gravity ceases to be a force but rather a curvature of space.
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