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Space, time, & stuff /
"Space, Time, and Stuff is an attempt to show that physics is geometry: that the fundamental structure of the physical world is purely geometrical structure. Along the way, he examines some non-standard views about the structure of spacetime and its inhabitants, including the idea that space an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford, U.K. ; New York :
Oxford Univ. Press,
2012.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. There goes the neighborhood
- 3. The world according to quantum mechanics
- 4. Pointlessness
- 5. Do space and time exist?
- 6. Gauge theories and fibre-bundle spaces
- 7. Directions, hands, and charges
- 8. Calculus as geometry (co-authored with Cian Dorr)
- Appendix A. Different differential structures that generate the same embedded subregions
- Appendix B. 'Diag' determines differential structure
- Appendix C. Adequacy of our axioms for scalar-value lines
- Appendix D. Nominalistic treatment of vector spaces.