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The necessary structure of the all-pervading aether : discrete or continuous? Simple or symmetric? / Peter Forrest
(Philosophische analyse = ; Bd. 49)
| Material Type | E-Book |
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| Publication | Frankfurt : Ontos Verlag , 2012 |
| Language | English |
| Size | 1 online resource (226 pages) : illustrations |
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| Media type | 機械可読データファイル |
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| Contents | Introduction; 1. A Survey of Hypotheses about the Aether's Structure; 2. Conflicting Intuitions; 3. Which Intuition to Abandon?; 4. Hypervolume and Topology; 5. The Problem with Differentiable Manifolds; 6. Contemporary Physics and Discrete Aether; 7. Symmetric Space-time; Conclusions; Glossary; References; Index |
| Notes | In this book I investigate the necessary structure of the aether - the stuff that fills the whole universe. Some of my conclusions are. 1. There is an enormous variety of structures that the aether might, for all we know, have. 2. Probably the aether is point-free. 3. In that case, it should be distinguished from Space-time, which is either a fiction or a construct. 4. Even if the aether has points, we should reject the orthodoxy that all regions are grounded in points by summation. 5. If the aether is point-free but not continuous, its most likely structure has extended atoms that are not sim English Includes bibliographical references and index Print version record |
| Authors | *Forrest, Peter. |
| Subjects | BSH:Electronic books LCSH:Ether (Space) LCSH:Space and time FREE:Ether (Space) FREE:Space and time |
| Classification | DC23:530.1 |
| ID | ED00002204 |
| ISBN | 9783110325928 |