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Petkov V Relativity And The Nature Of Spacetime

By Vesselin Petkov

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2005
ISBN
9783540238898, 3-540-23889-1, 3540238898
Open Library ID
OL22163260M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5331807 bytes)
Series
The Frontiers Collection
Edition
1
Pages
308\308
Library
Springer
Time added
2009-08-06 07:02:15

Description

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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