Relativity in Euclidean Space and in Spacetime

Abstract

As we have seen in Chap. 3 the most disturbing consequence of the analysis of Galileo’s principle of relativity carried out by the radical research team was that the world is four-dimensional. But so far the results from their analysis have not encountered any immediately obvious contradiction with the existing experimental evidence. It is natural for the researchers of this team to want at this stage to inform the scientific community of their groundbreaking results. Although they are quite aware of what a difficult task this would be, they know that the best way to convince the skeptical and conservative scientific community is to let the ultimate judge – the experimental evidence – do the job for them. They therefore start working on a mathematical formalism describing the four-dimensional space with time as the fourth dimension.