Relativity and the Nature of Spacetime

Author:   Vesselin Petkov
Publisher:   Springer
ISBN:  

9783642019630


Pages:   332
Publication Date:   17 April 2010
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Relativity and the Nature of Spacetime


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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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Author:   Vesselin Petkov
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Dimensions:   Width: 23.40cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 15.60cm
Weight:   0.467kg
ISBN:  

9783642019630


ISBN 10:   3642019633
Pages:   332
Publication Date:   17 April 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Undefined
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