Relativity and the Nature of Spacetime

• 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,
• Subjects: Physics.; Mathematical physics.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.; Philosophy.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01962-3

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.