Thinking about space and time : 100 years of applying and interpreting /: 100 years of applying and interpreting. ([2020])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Claus Beisbart, Tilman Sauer, Christian Würthrich, editors.
• Editors: Beisbart, Claus; Sauer, Tilman; Würthrich, Christian
• Contents: Introduction.- Space and Time 62 Years After the Berne Conference.- Einstein's Conflicting Heuristics: The Discovery of General Relativity.- Historical and Philosophical Aspects of the Einstein World.- Stability in Cosmology, from Einstein to Inflation.- The Einstein-Rosen Bridge and the Einstein Podolsky Rosen Argument: Singularities and Separability.- A Raum with a View: Hermann Weyl and the Problem of Space.- Friedman and Some of his Critics on the Foundations of General Relativity.- Interpretations of GR as Guidelines for Theory Change.- Explanation, Geometry, and Conspiracy in Relativity Theory.- Geometry and Motion in General Relativity.- The Metaphysics of Machian Frame-Dragging.- Approximate Local Poincaré Spacetime Symmetry in General Relativity.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 530.11; Space and time -- Philosophy
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030477820; 3030477827
• Related ISBNs: 3030477819; 9783030477813
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 21, 2020).
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