Space, Time, and Spacetime Physical and Philosophical Implications of Minkowski's Unification of Space and Time /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Petkov, Vesselin. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: Fundamental Theories of Physics ; 167
• Subjects: Physics.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13538-5

This volume is dedicated to the centennial anniversary of Minkowski's discovery of spacetime. It contains selected papers by physicists and philosophers on the Nature and Ontology of Spacetime. The first six papers, comprising Part I of the book, provide examples of the impact of Minkowski'...

Table of Contents:

• I.Minkowski's Representation of Special Relativity
• Examples of Its Impact on the Twentieth Century Physics
• The Minkowskian Background of Whiteheads Theory of Gravitation
• The Experimental Verdict on Spacetime from Gravity Probe B
• Rigidity and the Ruler Hypothesis.-Minkowski Space and Quantum Mechanics
• Relativity and Quantum Field Theory
• Ether, the Theory of Relativity and Quantum Physics
• II: Implications of Minkowski's Ideas for the Philosophy of Space and Time
• Minkowskis Proper Time and the Status of the Clock Hypothesis.-Why Spacetime is not a Hidden Cause: A Realist Story
• Structural Explanations in Minkowski Spacetime: Which Account of Models?.-Relativity of Simultaneity and Eternalism: In Defense of the Block Universe
• Minkowski Spacetime and Thermodynamics.-No Presentism in Quantum Gravity.-III. The Impact of Minkowski's Ideas Beyond the Philosophy of Space and Time
• Spacetime, Phenomenology, and the Picture Theory of Language
• The Fate of Mathematical Place: Objectivity and the Theory of Lived-Space from Husserl to Casey.