Towards a Theory of Spacetime Theories

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lehmkuhl, Dennis (Editor), Schiemann, Gregor (Editor), Scholz, Erhard (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2017.
• Series: Einstein Studies, 13
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Differential geometry.; History.; Mathematical physics.; Physics.; History of Mathematical Sciences.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.; Mathematical Physics.; Differential Geometry.

This contributed volume is the result of a July 2010 workshop at the University of Wuppertal Interdisciplinary Centre for Science and Technology Studies which brought together world-wide experts from physics, philosophy and history, in order to address a set of questions first posed in the 1950s: Ho...

Table of Contents:

• Inertial Motion, Explanation, and the Foundations of Classical Spacetime Theories
• A Primer on Energy Conditions
• Background Independence, Diffeomorphism Invariance, and the Meaning of Coordinates
• Gauge Theory of Gravity and Spacetime
• Paving the Way for Transitions - A Case for Weyl Geometry
• A Model-theoretic Analysis of Spacetime Theories
• The Relativity and Equivalence Principles for Self-gravitating Systems
• The Physical Significance of Symmetries from the Perspective of Conservation Laws
• Raisers of the Lost Spacetime
• Does Time Exist in Quantum Gravity?.