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Einstein-Electric and magnetic fields do not exist independently of the state of moition of the system of coordinates:Its Importance to Neuroscience and The Mind

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Abstract

The full understanding of Einstein's statement is that electric and magnetic fields have a non-material aspect since we see systems of coordinates having different electric and magnetic fields depending on their status as stationary or instead the moving frame. The reason is the logic and reason at the heart of the relativity of simultaneity in special relativity that depends on the observer at rest in the stationary frame deducing that his specific simultaneity is not the simultaneity for the moving observer. The relativity of simultaneity is at the heart of the Lorentz transformation equations (LTE). Without the LTE, we return to the Galilean transformation equations (GTE) that cannot explain Einstein's statement. The oscillating electric and magnetic fields constituting the brain waves recorded in EEG and MEG and that are associated with cognition can be understood in terms of Einstein's statement. Time and space are absolute for the GTE. The relative character of time and space for inertial reference frames in special relativity allows these frames to have different electric and magnetic fields depending on their status as stationary or moving.

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  • Douglas M Snyder

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  • Douglas M Snyder

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