Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics: Festschrift in Honor of John Stachel
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781402012853
ISBN-10: 1402012853
Pagini: 672
Ilustrații: XXII, 650 p. 4 illus.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.93 kg
Editura: SPRINGER NETHERLANDS
Colecția Springer
Locul publicării:Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN-10: 1402012853
Pagini: 672
Ilustrații: XXII, 650 p. 4 illus.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.93 kg
Editura: SPRINGER NETHERLANDS
Colecția Springer
Locul publicării:Dordrecht, Netherlands
Public țintă
ResearchCuprins
I: Historical and Philosophical Roots of Relativity.- The Prehistory of Relativity.- Interpretations and Equations of the Michelson Experiment and its Variations.- The Trouton Experiment, E = mc2, and a Slice of Minkowski Space-Time.- The N-Stein Family.- Eclipses of the Stars: Mandl, Einstein, and the Early History of Gravitational Lensing.- The Varieties of Unity: Sounding Unified Theories 1920–1930.- Indiscernibles, General Covariance, and Other Symmetries: The Case for Non-Reductive Relationalism.- On Relative Orbital Rotation in Relativity Theory.- II: Foundational Issues in Relativity and their Advancement.- The Unique Nature of Cosmology.- Time, Structure, and Evolution in Cosmology.- Timekeeping in an Expanding Universe.- Gravitational Lensing from a Space-Time Perspective.- Rigidly Rotating Disk Revisted.- DSS 2+2.- Geometry, Null Hypersurfaces and New Variables.- On Vacuum Twisting Type-N Again.- Quasi-Local Energy.- Space-Time Defects: Open and Closed Shells Revisited.- Dimensionally Challenged Gravities.- A Note on Holonomic Constraints.- Towards an Action-at-a-Distance Concept of Spacetime.- III: Foundational Issues in Quantum Physics and their Advancement.- Inevitability, Inseparability and Gedanken Measurement.- The Concept of Quantum State: New Views on Old Phenomena.- Elementary Processes.- On Quantum Non-Locality, Special Relativity, and Counterfactual Reasoning.- Coherence, Entanglement, and Reductionist Explanation in Quantum Physics.- IV: Science, History, and the Challenges of Progress.- Physics and Science Fiction.- Can We Learn From History? Do We Want To?.- Patterns of Appropriation in the Greek Intellectual Life of the 18th Century: Case Study on the Notion of Time.- Darwin, Marx, and Warranted Progress: Materialism and Views of Developmentin Nineteenth-Century Germany.- Albert Einstein and the Founding of Brandeis University.- John Stachel’s Publications.