Thinking About Space and Time
100 Years of Applying and Interpreting General Relativity
Editors: Beisbart, Claus, Sauer, Tilman, Wüthrich, Christian (Eds.)
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- Collects original research from leading authors in various fields, presenting a truly multidisciplinary approach
- Analyzes past theories of spacetime and gravitation, while also looking toward the future
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This volume offers an integrated understanding of how the theory of general relativity gained momentum after Einstein had formulated it in 1915. Chapters focus on the early reception of the theory in physics and philosophy and on the systematic questions that emerged shortly after Einstein's momentous discovery. They are written by physicists, historians of science, and philosophers, and were originally presented at the conference titled Thinking About Space and Time: 100 Years of Applying and Interpreting General Relativity, held at the University of Bern from September 12-14, 2017. By establishing the historical context first, and then moving into more philosophical chapters, this volume will provide readers with a more complete understanding of early applications of general relativity (e.g., to cosmology) and of related philosophical issues. Because the chapters are often cross-disciplinary, they cover a wide variety of topics related to the general theory of relativity. These include:
- Heuristics used in the discovery of general relativity
- Mach's Principle
- The structure of Einstein's theory
- Cosmology and the Einstein world
- Stability of cosmological models
- The metaphysical nature of spacetime
- The relationship between spacetime and dynamics
- The Geodesic Principle
- Symmetries
- Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Space and Time 62 Years After the Berne Conference
Pages 1-15
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Einstein’s Conflicting Heuristics: The Discovery of General Relativity
Pages 17-48
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Historical and Philosophical Aspects of the Einstein World
Pages 49-69
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Stability in Cosmology, from Einstein to Inflation
Pages 71-89
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The Einstein–Rosen Bridge and the Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen Argument: Singularities and Separability
Pages 91-109
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Thinking About Space and Time
- Book Subtitle
- 100 Years of Applying and Interpreting General Relativity
- Editors
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- Claus Beisbart
- Tilman Sauer
- Christian Wüthrich
- Series Title
- Einstein Studies
- Series Volume
- 15
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Birkhäuser Basel
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-47782-0
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-47782-0
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-47781-3
- Series ISSN
- 2381-5833
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVIII, 267
- Number of Illustrations
- 5 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
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