书目名称 | Relativity and the Nature of Spacetime |
编辑 | Vesselin Petkov |
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概述 | A must for all theoretical physicists and philosophers of science.Second edition is significantly expanded with new and strengthened arguments.Includes supplementary material: |
丛书名称 | The Frontiers Collection |
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描述 | .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.. |
出版日期 | Book 20051st edition |
关键词 | Existence; Minkowski spacetime; Relativity; Time flow; quantum mechanics |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27700-5 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-540-27700-2Series ISSN 1612-3018 Series E-ISSN 2197-6619 |
issn_series | 1612-3018 |
copyright | Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005 |