Relativity without Spacetime

• Main Author: Cosgrove, Joseph K. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Philosophy and science.; Physics.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Philosophy of Science.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.

In 1908, three years after Einstein first published his special theory of relativity, the mathematician Hermann Minkowski introduced his four-dimensional "spacetime" interpretation of the theory. Einstein initially dismissed Minkowski's theory, remarking that "since the mathemati...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: A Critique of Minkowski Spacetime
• Chapter 2: Minkowski's "Space and Time"
• Chapter 3: Special Relativity and Spacetime
• Chapter 4: The Historical Sense-Structure of Symbolic Algebra
• Chapter 5: The Historical Sense-Structure of Modern Algebraic Physics
• Chapter 6: Desedimentation of Minkowski Spacetime
• Chapter 7: The Irrelevance of Minkowski Spacetime in General Relativity
• Chapter 8: The Theory of Relativity in Philosophical Perspective.