Myth vs Transport View

How familiar explanations collapse when motion is treated honestly

Topic Myth / Traditional View Transport View
Ontology Objects, forces, and fields exist independently Only motion exists; all quantities describe transported motion
Inertia A property of mass resisting force Persistence of motion under transport
Forces Physical causes that change motion Bookkeeping terms from evolving frames
Gravity Attractive force or spacetime curvature Persistent curvature from nested transport
Frames Passive coordinate choices Evolving transport histories
Energy Stored substance (potential + kinetic) Motion measured in a chosen frame
Mass Amount of matter Resistance to frame-imposed curvature
$E=mc$ Mass–energy equivalence with conversion Constrained motion measured against the unbound limit
$F=ma$ Force causes acceleration Frame curvature accounting identity
Light Massless particle or wave Unconstrained motion (transport limit)
π Geometric circle constant Phase residue from transport non-closure
π² Mathematical coincidence Phase-space area invariant
Buffon’s Needle Probability puzzle Orientation phase averaging experiment
Basel Problem Euler’s clever trick Discrete mode-density summation
Gaussian Integral Probability normalization Continuous phase-volume conservation
Parseval’s Theorem Fourier identity Conservation of motion across representations
Orbits Balanced force trajectories Curved transport under non-closure
Escape Velocity Overcoming gravitational pull Completion of transport (motion stops turning)
Reading tip: If the transport view explains all rows with fewer assumptions, the myth view is redundant.

Related: Transport Invariants Index · Transport Axioms