Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2007-02-15
Class.Quant.Grav.24:5317-5341,2007
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Rewritten, publication reference added
Scientific paper
10.1088/0264-9381/24/22/001
In Euclidean relational particle mechanics (ERPM) only relative times, relative angles and relative separations are meaningful, while in similarity relational particle mechanics (SRPM) only relative times, relative angles and ratios of relative separations are. These theories are clearly of interest in the absolute or relative motion debate. In this paper, ERPM and SRPM are provided in fully reduced form for 3 particles in 2D, i.e. the classical dynamics on triangleland in 2D with and without scale. Exact solutions to each of these are then found, and simple Newton--Coulomb-like and harmonic oscillator-like SRPM models are studied numerically. The mathematics one arrives at thus overlaps in many ways with that which arises in the absolutist approach. The ERPM gives standard mathematics, while the SRPM has standard small-relative-scale behaviour and an unexpected but in itself standard universal large-relative-scale behaviour. One way in which SRPM is unusual is that it is a model in which a symmetry principle underlies an unexpected departure from standard physical behaviour at sufficiently large relative scales (interpolation between the abovementioned two behaviours). ERPM and SRPM are also theoretically interesting at the quantum level, both on their own merit and as toy models for the development of various approaches to the problems of time and of observables in quantum general relativity.
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