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V. Evolution of Reference Frame

All things in Physics revolve around motion. Philosophically speaking, we may characterize the reference frame as the void of motion – i.e. its total absence. However, at a deeper analysis the reference frame implies the absence of the specific type of motion which is being studied, exactly the same way as a vacuum means absence of electric charge when charge motion is described, absence of mass when mass motion is described, etc. In close analysis, though, the reference frame has its own evolution, unnoticeable for the motion it helps to describe, and this is a very important point to notice. It is most unfortunate that this evolution had to be described by the means of Physics, i.e. by reducing it to motion, for this has hidden its true nature and led to much confusion.

Imagine what the Physics would be if the plate tectonics of the Earth crust would be a physically noticeable motion. The idea is absurd in itself, for we cannot even say that the Science would look the way it looks today in such a case. May be we could not even discuss about a reference frame, to say nothing about Astrology. Instead, we have evidence that places migrated on Earth along the time, even though that evidence may be criticizable nowadays (Pratt, 2000). The sure thing is that there is evidence allowing us to infer the existence of a motion that takes place at another time scale, not the usual time scale of Physics. The problem is if this motion is actual. The situation here seems to be akin to that regarding another part of the physical content of the reference frame, the Sky: the positions of Stars ages ago were not the same as their positions today. Here the Science got a plus in description: not only the Stars may have moved, but the Space itself may have stretched – at least starting at a certain scale – carrying its content in this process. This stretching of the Space has never been properly described, for it has been always reduced to motion. Its different nature has been realized by the beginning of the last century, when the General Relativity was born. However, this example shows with evidence that what Physics misses when abstracting a reference frame in the form of a triad of unit vectors, is the deformation of the reference frame, a process that cannot be always reduced to motion. One can say that this process sets the pace of all the physical processes to be described in that reference frame. Why not consider, for instance, that the very evolution of the Man as a species is in direct relation with such deformation!? No matter of the attitude we choose to adopt here, what we mean by describing the reference frame ‘in itself’ is this deformation that passes unnoticed for everyday life and thus, obviously, has a long time had passed unnoticed for Positive Science. In all evidence, then, we cannot say that the Astrology performs better when it comes to that part of description of the reference frame: it still considers the same geometric fixed frame as given within Euclidean Geometry.

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