Relativity without Spacetime
In 1908, three years after Einstein first published his special theory of relativity, the mathematician Hermann Minkowski introduced his four-dimensional "spacetime" interpretation of the theory. Einstein initially dismissed Minkowski's theory, remarking that "since the mathemati...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Springer International Publishing,
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| Ausgabe: | 1st ed. 2018. |
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| ISBN: | 9783319726311 |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Chapter 1: A Critique of Minkowski Spacetime
- Chapter 2: Minkowski's "Space and Time"
- Chapter 3: Special Relativity and Spacetime
- Chapter 4: The Historical Sense-Structure of Symbolic Algebra
- Chapter 5: The Historical Sense-Structure of Modern Algebraic Physics
- Chapter 6: Desedimentation of Minkowski Spacetime
- Chapter 7: The Irrelevance of Minkowski Spacetime in General Relativity
- Chapter 8: The Theory of Relativity in Philosophical Perspective.