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	Borchardt's central charge, set out in "[[Einstein's Most Important Philosophical Error]]" (2011), is that a single philosophical mistake has held physics back for over a century: '''the objectification of motion''' — treating motion as though it had material properties.		Borchardt's central charge, set out in "[[Einstein's Most Important Philosophical Error]]" (2011), is that a single philosophical mistake has held physics back for over a century: '''the objectification of motion''' — treating motion as though it had material properties.

	His analogy is the caloric theory of heat. Eighteenth-century physics treated heat as a fluid, a substance, rather than as the vibratory motion of atoms; the error was not mathematical but ontological, and it was corrected by recognising that heat is something matter ''does'', not something matter ''contains''. Borchardt argues that Einstein, following Maxwell, made the same category mistake with light — beginning from the assumption that light is a particle rather than wave motion in a sea of particles — and then generalised it into a physics in which motion itself acquires material standing. On his account this single error invalidates both special and general relativity, and the ready acceptance of those theories owed more to the appeal of indeterministic philosophy than to the strength of the supporting data. He regards the classic confirmations, including the Eddington eclipse observations and the [[Hafele-Keating ~~experiment\|Hafele-Keating]]~~ clock flights, as too poor to establish what is claimed for them.		His analogy is the caloric theory of heat. Eighteenth-century physics treated heat as a fluid, a substance, rather than as the vibratory motion of atoms; the error was not mathematical but ontological, and it was corrected by recognising that heat is something matter ''does'', not something matter ''contains''. Borchardt argues that Einstein, following Maxwell, made the same category mistake with light — beginning from the assumption that light is a particle rather than wave motion in a sea of particles — and then generalised it into a physics in which motion itself acquires material standing. On his account this single error invalidates both special and general relativity, and the ready acceptance of those theories owed more to the appeal of indeterministic philosophy than to the strength of the supporting data. He regards the classic confirmations, including the Eddington eclipse observations and the Hafele-Keating clock flights, as too poor to establish what is claimed for them.

	=== The objectification of time ===		=== The objectification of time ===

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Neomechanics is a theory put forth by [[Glenn Borchardt|Dr. Glenn Borchardt]] and is the basis for several theories including the [[Universal Cycle Theory]] and the [[Particle Model]].

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