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The necessary structure of the all-pervading aether : discrete or continuous? Simple or symmetric? /
In this book I investigate the necessary structure of the aether - the stuff that fills the whole universe. Some of my conclusions are. 1. There is an enormous variety of structures that the aether might, for all we know, have. 2. Probably the aether is point-free. 3. In that case, it should be dist...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Frankfurt :
Ontos Verlag,
2012.
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| Colección: | Philosophische Analyse ;
Bd. 49. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In this book I investigate the necessary structure of the aether - the stuff that fills the whole universe. Some of my conclusions are. 1. There is an enormous variety of structures that the aether might, for all we know, have. 2. Probably the aether is point-free. 3. In that case, it should be distinguished from Space-time, which is either a fiction or a construct. 4. Even if the aether has points, we should reject the orthodoxy that all regions are grounded in points by summation. 5. If the aether is point-free but not continuous, its most likely structure has extended atoms that are not sim. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (226 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783110325928 3110325926 |