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Symmetry, structure, and spacetime /
In this book Rickles considers several interpretative difficulties raised by gauge-type symmetries (those that correspond to no change in physical state). The ubiquity of such symmetries in modern physics renders them an urgent topic in philosophy of physics. Rickles focuses on spacetime physics, an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Netherlands :
Elsevier,
�2008.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Philosophy and foundations of physics ;
v. 3. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1 Interpretation and Formalism
- 2 Space and Time in the Leibniz-Clarke Debate
- 3 The Interpretation of Gauge Symmetries
- 4 Spacetime in General Relativity
- 5 Responding to the Hole Problem
- 6 What is an Observable In General Relativity?
- 7 Time, Change, and Gauge
- 8 Symmetry and Ontology
- 9 Structuralism and Symmetry.