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Fiction > 3. Space and Time in Classical Mechanics Relativity:
The Special and General Theory. Space and Time in Classical
Mechanics of mechanics is to describe how bodies change their
position in space with time. I should load my conscience with
grave sins against the sacred spirit of lucidity were I to
formulate the aims of mechanics in this way, without serious
reflection and detailed explanations. Let us proceed to disclose
these sins. It is not clear what is to be understood here by
position and space. I stand at the window of a railway carriage
which is travelling uniformly, and drop a stone on the
embankment, without throwing it. Then, disregarding the
influence of the air resistance, I see the stone descend in a
straight line. A pedestrian who observes the misdeed from the
footpath notices that the stone falls to earth in a parabolic
curve. I now ask: Do the positions traversed b