狭义相对论并未揭示时空依赖于物质及其运动--兼与我国哲学界的几种观点商榷

本文依据相对论的时空度规理论,将狭义相对论与牛顿力学和广义相对论进行比较分析,指出狭义相对论只是揭示了时间与空间的联系,并未揭示时空依赖于物质及其运动,也未证明时空性质随物质运动的变化而变化;狭义相对论只是突破而没有否定牛顿绝对时空观,仍保留了牛顿绝对时空观的本质涵义;广义相对论从引力场几何化这一角度全面破除了牛顿绝对时空观,是辩证唯物主义时空观的真正自然科学基础.本文还对我国哲学界流行的几种代表性观点,逐一进行了剖析,力图纠正若干不正确的看法.

The Special Theory of Relativity:Failure to Reveal the Dependence of Time and Space on Matter and its Motion

This article compares the special theory of relativity with Newton's mechanics and the general theory of relativity in light of the metric theory of time and space. It argues that the special theory of relativity has only revealed the connections between time and space but not the dependence of time and space on matter and its motion. Neither has it proved that the nature of time and space changes with the motion of matter. It is a breakthrough rather than a negation of the essential implications of Newton's absolute time-space theory. However, the general theory of relativity has totally broken with Newton's absolute time-space theory and is the real basis of natural sciences on which to build up the dialectical materialist theory of time and space. In the hope of correcting some mistakes, this article also analyzes certain representative views that are very popular in China's philosophical circle.