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Relativity and the Nature of Spacetime

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 rela...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Petkov, Vesselin (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
Edición:2nd ed. 2009.
Colección:The Frontiers Collection,
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo

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505 0 |a I From Galileo to Minkowski -- On the Impossibility of Detecting Uniform Motion -- Exploring the Internal Logic of Galileo#x2019;s Principle of Relativity -- Relativity in Euclidean Space and in Spacetime -- II On the Nature of Spacetime: -- Relativity and the Dimensionality of the World: Spacetime Is Real -- Why Is the Issue of the Nature of Spacetime So Important? -- III Implications of the Reality of Spacetime for Physics -- Propagation of Light in Non-Inertial Reference Frames -- Calculating the Electric Field of a Charge in a Non-Inertial Reference Frame -- Inertia as a Manifestation of the Reality of Spacetime -- Spacetime and the Nature of Quantum Objects -- Appendix A, Appendix B, Appendix C, Appendix D. 
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