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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction; 1. A Survey of Hypotheses about the Aether's Structure; 2. Conflicting Intuitions; 3. Which Intuition to Abandon?; 4. Hypervolume and Topology; 5. The Problem with Differentiable Manifolds; 6. Contemporary Physics and Discrete Aether; 7. Symmetric Space-time; Conclusions; Glossary; References; Index.