Work Classification Layer
Compare Works
Pick two or more works to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension passages, and shared school embodiments side by side. Especially useful for author-stage comparisons (Wittgenstein early vs late) and for setting a single tradition's foundational texts against each other.
Relativity: The Special and General Theory
Space and time are observer-relative; gravity is curvature of spacetime — Newtonian absolute space dissolved
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Relativity: The Special and General Theory |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Relational |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Both |
| Space · Ontological Status | Relational |
| Space · Curvature | Curved |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Local |
| Matter · Extent | Finite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Immediate |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Cosmic-ordering |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Reason |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Finite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Irreversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Non-conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Relativity: The Special and General Theory
Special relativity: time is observer-relative. General relativity: spacetime is dynamically curved. Relational ontological status — spacetime is real but bound up with matter-energy.
Space
Relativity: The Special and General Theory
Curved by matter-energy according to GR. Cosmological models discuss both finite (closed) and infinite (open/flat) universes — extent is genuinely open empirically.
Matter
Relativity: The Special and General Theory
Real, substantival, conserved (mass-energy conservation). E=mc² shows matter and energy as interconvertible.
Observer
Relativity: The Special and General Theory
The observer is real, embodied, finite — and the simultaneity of events depends on the observer's reference frame. No metaphysical agency in the working theory.
Energy
Relativity: The Special and General Theory
Conserved. Mass-energy equivalence (E=mc²) is one of the foundational equations.
Information
Relativity: The Special and General Theory
Real informational structure of spacetime curvature. Personal information not conserved across death in the working framework.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Einstein's lifelong resistance to quantum mechanics (the EPR paradox, the "God does not play dice" remark) means that Relativity captures only part of twentieth-century physics. The integration of GR with quantum mechanics remains open. Einstein himself expected a deeper unified theory; the search continues.