Relativity and the Dimensionality of the World

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Petkov, Vesselin (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Series: Fundamental Theories of Physics ; 153
• Subjects: Physics.; Philosophy and science.; Gravitation.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Philosophy of Science.

All physicists would agree that one of the most fundamental problems of the 21st century physics is the dimensionality of the world. In the four-dimensional world of Minkowski (or Minkowski spacetime) the most challenging problem is the nature of the temporal dimension. In Minkowski spacetime it is...