The Meaning of a Transformation
At the core of Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity lies the Lorentz transformation: a set of equations that describe how space and time coordinates relate between frames moving relative to one another. In standard physics, they are treated as the mathematically necessary way to preserve the constancy of the speed of light.
But from a relational ontology, we ask not what the Lorentz transformations describe—but what they instantiate.
Not Observers, But Instances of Meaning
Standard interpretations presume two observers, each in their own frame, comparing measurements of time and space. But in our model, an ‘observer’ is a symbolic fiction—a grammatical placeholder in the unfolding of a relational process. What matters is not who observes, but what meanings are instantiated in relation to what processes.
Thus, the Lorentz transformation becomes:
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Not a change in coordinates between objects,
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But a change in instantiated spacetime relationsbetween two systems of meaning-making.
In this view, velocity is not absolute or inertial—it is an actualised relation between unfolding processes. Time dilation is not a warping of time itself, but a difference in how time is construed, instantiated differently in systems moving relative to each other.
The Grammar of Relative Motion
Let’s recall the core Lorentz transformation:
But let’s not read these as mere algebra. Read them as symbolic operators in the grammar of relational construal.
They say:
“What is now and here for me, becomes then and there for you,depending on how our processes are moving through shared potential.”
Not Space-Time, But Timeing and Spacing
In the relational model, there is no pre-existent space-time onto which objects are mapped. Instead:
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Timeing is the unfolding of processes.
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Spacing is the construal of relative differentiation between instances.
The Lorentz transformation is the symbolic constraint that governs how these unfoldings and construals are instantiated across systems.
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