Relativity And The Nature Of Spacetime - Rilegato

Petkov, Vesselin

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ISBN 10: 3540238891 ISBN 13: 9783540238898

Casa editrice: Springer Nature, 2005

Riassunto

The most important question 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 relativistic effects and explicitly asking whether the objects involved in those effects are three-dimensional or four-dimensional. This analysis clearly shows that if the world and the physical objects were three-dimensional, none of the kinematic relativistic effects and the experimental evidence supporting them would be possible. The implications of this result for physics, philosophy, and our entire world view are discussed.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Presently: Assistant Professor, Science College, Concordia University (in fact, I am associated with three departments - Liberal Arts College, Philosophy Department, and Science College)1984 -1989: Adjunct Professor, Philosophy Department, Sofia University1986 -1989: Researcher, Institute of Philosophy, Bulgarian Academy of SciencesDoctoral degrees in theoretical physics (1997, Concordia University) and philosophy of science (1988, Institute of Philosophy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences).

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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 relativistic effects and explicitly asking whether the objects involved in those effects are three-dimensional or four-dimensional. This analysis clearly shows that if the world and the physical objects were three-dimensional, none of the kinematic relativistic effects and the experimental evidence supporting them would be possible. The implications of this result for physics, philosophy, and our entire world view are discussed.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Springer Nature
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3540238891
• ISBN 13: 9783540238898
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 294
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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