Chapter 2. Democracy and Science The principle of democracy contains only two key points, be profitable and practical. After Einstein published his paper on 1905-6-30 about the space and time, claimed that he proved the Lorentz Transformation (LT) mathematically; the science was heading to democratization. Why? 2-1. Democratic Science - Timing & Location The hypothesis of “length contraction” had pended for more than 10 years in Europe and people still did not know if it would solve the conflict created by MMX so that when people heard someone already proved the LT mathematically, most likely people would try to design an experiment to verify it. 2-2. Democratic Science - the Event Itself Some scholars did question about both proofs of LT provided by Einstein, but, the results of experiments were …show more content…
Democratic Science - the Factor of Support Einstein was able to get a lot of supports. In year 1907, one of his teachers already created the Minkowski Space to explain SR geometrically. After Einstein published his GR formally in year 1916, the first non-trivial solution of the GR equation was found by Karl Schwazchild. Then the theory of Black Holds was established later on. Even Einstein’s mistake of adding the cosmological constant was able to be corrected due to the theory of Big Bang. 2-4. Democratic Science - Factor of Resources In the factor of resources, the quick expansion of science from atom, nucleus, particles, computers and websites all helped people to link more and more observations or experiments to GR and SR. Went through the golden era of GR, from year 1960 to 1975, even if the GR and quantum theory were not compatible to each other, even if there was no experiment to verify “length contraction”, most physicists still decided to accept the “length contraction” and “time dilation” as proved physical fact. The mixed space and time was finally created in the 20th century and the “Democratic Science” was established in the 20th century as