The Non-Fundamentality of Spacetime - Salimkhani, Kian; - Prospero Internetes Könyváruház

 
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ISBN13:9781032518343
ISBN10:10325183411
Kötéstípus:Puhakötés
Terjedelem:266 oldal
Méret:229x152 mm
Súly:453 g
Nyelv:angol
Illusztrációk: 8 Illustrations, black & white; 8 Line drawings, black & white
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The Non-Fundamentality of Spacetime

General Relativity, Quantum Gravity, and Metaphysics
 
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Kiadó: Routledge
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This book argues that our current best theories of fundamental physics are best interpreted as positing spacetime as non-fundamental. It is written in accessible language and largely avoids mathematical technicalities by instead focusing on the key metaphysical and foundational lessons for the fundamentality of spacetime.

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This book argues that our current best theories of fundamental physics are best interpreted as positing spacetime as non-fundamental. It is written in accessible language and largely avoids mathematical technicalities by instead focusing on the key metaphysical and foundational lessons for the fundamentality of spacetime.


According to orthodoxy, spacetime and spatiotemporal properties are regarded as fundamental structures of our world. Spacetime fundamentalism, however, faces challenges from speculative theories of quantum gravity ? roughly speaking, the project of applying the lessons of quantum mechanics to gravitation and spacetime. This book demonstrates that the non-fundamentality of spacetime does not rely on speculative physics alone. Rather, one can give an interpretation of general relativity that supports some form of spacetime non-fundamentalism. The author makes the case for spacetime non-fundamentalism in three steps. First, he confronts the standard geometrical interpretation of general relativity with Brown and Pooley?s dynamical approach to relativity theory. Second, he considers an alternative derivation of the Einstein field equations, namely the classical spin-2 approach, and argues that it paves the way for a refined dynamical approach to general relativity. Finally, he argues that particle physics can serve as a continuity condition for the metaphysics of spacetime.


The Non-Fundamentality of Spacetime will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in philosophy of physics, philosophy of science, and metaphysics.



"This book combines novel, breakthrough contributions with insightful overviews of the state of the art in the foundations of spacetime."


Vera Matarese, University of Bern, Switzerland

Tartalomjegyzék:

1. Introduction 2. Fundamentality 3. Spacetime in Relativity Theory 4. Classical ?Spin-2? Gravity 5. Spacetime in Quantum Gravity 6. Unification 7. Conclusion Appendix: More Detailed Calculations