The conceptual foundations of contemporary relativity theory /
The central conceptual idea of the contemporary theory of general relativity--or geometrodynamics--is the identification of matter with the structure of space-time. No entities foreign to space-time, like masses, charges, or independent fields are needed, and physics thus becomes identical with the...
| Основен автор: | Graves, John Cowperthwaite. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
M.I.T. Press,
1971.
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Conceptual foundations of contemporary relativity theory. |
Съдържание:
- pt. I. Philosophy. Introduction
- Scientific realism versus the empiricist error
- The logicist error
- The role of models
- pt. II. History. Conceptual geography and Plato
- Descartes' geometrization of physics
- Newtonianism and atomism
- pt. III. Physical theory: classical general relativity. Field theories
- Foundation principles of general relativity
- Measurement in general relativity
- The law of motion and the field law
- Approximations, dimensions, and empirical tests
- The conceptual novelty of general relativity: interdependence
- pt. IV. Physical theory: post-Einstein geometrodynamics. The new dynamics and the role of time
- The incorporation of the electromagnetic field
- The wormhole model
- Matter versus space: an answer to Mach
- pt. V. Unification. Epilogue.