Relativity and the Dimensionality of the World

All physicists would agree that one of the most fundamental problems of the 21st century physics is the dimensionality of the world. In the four-dimensional world of Minkowski (or Minkowski spacetime) the most challenging problem is the nature of the temporal dimension. In Minkowski spacetime it is...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Petkov, Vesselin (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2007.
Edition:1st ed. 2007.
Series:Fundamental Theories of Physics, 153
Subjects:
Gravitation.
Physics-Philosophy.
Science-Philosophy.
Classical and Quantum Gravity.
Philosophical Foundations of Physics and Astronomy.
Philosophy of Science.
Online Access:Texto Completo
Table of Contents:
  • The Meaning of Dimensions
  • Some Remarks on the Space-Time of Newton and Einstein
  • The Adventures of Space-Time
  • Physics in the Real Universe: Time and Space-Time
  • The Real World and Space-Time
  • Four-dimensional Reality and Determinism; an Answer to Stein
  • Relativity, Dimensionality, and Existence
  • Canonical Relativity and the Dimensionality of the World
  • Relativity Theory Does Not Imply that the Future Already Exists: A Counterexample
  • Absolute Being versus Relative Becoming
  • An Argument for 4D Block World from a Geometric Interpretation of Nonrelativistic Quantum Mechanics
  • Space-time: Arena or Reality?
  • Dynamical Emergence of Instantaneous 3-Spaces in a Class of Models of General Relativity
  • Lorentzian Space-Times from Parabolic and Elliptic Systems of PDEs.

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