Relativity and the Nature of Spacetime

The most important question that is addressed in this book is "what is the nature (the ontological status) of spacetime?" or, equivalently, "what is the dimensionality of the world at the macroscopic level?" The answer to this question is developed via a thorough analysis of rela...

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Main Author: Petkov, Vesselin. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
Series:The Frontiers Collection,
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505 0 # |a Introduction -- On the Impossibility of Detecting Uniform Motion -- Exploring the Internal Logic of Galileo's Principle of Relativity -- Relativity in Euclidean Space and in Spacetime -- Relativity and the Dimensionality of the World: Spacetime Is Real -- Quantum Mechanics and the Nature of Spacetime -- The Nature of Spacetime and the Validity of Scientific Theories -- Propagation of Light in Non-inertial Reference Frames -- Calculating the Electric Field of a Charge in a Non-inertial Reference Frame -- Inertia as a Manifestation of the Reality of Spacetime -- Appendices -- References -- Index. 
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