Minkowski Spacetime: A Hundred Years Later

This volume is dedicated to the one hundredth anniversary of the publication of Hermann Minkowski's paper "Space and Time" in 1909. His work on the spacetime representation of special relativity had a huge impact on the twentieth century physics to the extent that modern physics would...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Petkov, Vesselin. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2010.
Series:Fundamental Theories of Physics ; 165
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Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3475-5
Table of Contents:
  • PART I: The Impact of Minkowski Spacetime on the Twentieth Century Physics from a Historical Perspective
  • PART II: Implications of Minkowski Spacetime for Theoretical Physics
  • PART III: Conceptual and Philosophical Issues of Minkowski Spacetime.