Titlebook: Seven Fundamental Concepts in Spacetime Physics; Vesselin Petkov Book 2024Latest edition The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s),

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49730-8Is Spacetime Real; Is Acceleration Absolute in Relativity; Are Inertial Forces Real; Relativistic Mass;

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Book 2024Latest editionlecture "Space and Time." These concepts are:  spacetime, inertial and accelerated motion in spacetime physics, the origin and nature of inertia in spacetime physics, relativistic mass, gravitation, gravitational waves, and black holes. They have been selected because they appear to be causing most

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Gravitation,e occurred to him, but perhaps it looked too revolutionary even to him to state explicitly that a full identification of gravity with the curvature of spacetime implies that there is no gravitational interaction in the physical world.

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,Inertial and Accelerated Motion in Spacetime Physics,t gave rise to the proverb “The darkest place is under the lantern.”For centuries the greatest minds have been struggling to understand what people have always thought they were fully familiar with—motion. The Eleatics (fifth century BC) held a completely counter-intuitive view on motion, which is a

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,Origin and Nature of Inertia in Spacetime Physics, Aristotle’s view of motion, led him not only to what we now call Galileo’s principle of relativity (uniform motion, i.e., motion by inertia, cannot be detected by mechanical experiments) but those analyses first led him to what we now call Galileo’s principle of inertia (which was essential for dis

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Relativistic Mass,c mass (e.g., in papers entitled “The Virus of Relativistic Mass in the Year of Physics” [.]), whereas what appears to be the majority of physicists continue to regard it as an integral part of spacetime physics including even in introductory textbooks and books published in the last several years (

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,Origin and Nature of Inertia in Spacetime Physics,e detected by mechanical experiments) but those analyses first led him to what we now call Galileo’s principle of inertia (which was essential for disproving Aristotle’s view of motion)—bodies preserve their state of rest or of uniform motion (they continue to move on their own without a mover until prevented from doing so).