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Könyv Physical Relativity Harvey R. Brown

Physical Relativity

Space-time structure from a dynamical perspective

Szerző: Harvey R. Brown
Nyelv: Angol
Kötés: Kemény kötésű
Kiadó: Oxford University Press
Elérhetőség: Beszállítói készleten
Küldés 10-18 napon belül
43 913 Ft
Physical Relativity explores the nature of the distinction at the heart of Einstein's 1905 formulati...

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Szerző
Harvey R. Brown
Nyelv
Angol
Kötés
Könyv - Kemény kötésű
Kiadva
2005
oldal
240
EAN
9780199275830
ISBN
0199275831
Enbook ID
04531356
Kiadó
Oxford University Press
Súly
510
Méretek
162 x 242 x 22

Teljes leírás

Physical Relativity explores the nature of the distinction at the heart of Einstein's 1905 formulation of his special theory of relativity: that between kinematics and dynamics. Einstein himself became increasingly uncomfortable with this distinction, and with the limitations of what he called the 'principle theory' approach inspired by the logic of thermodynamics. A handful of physicists and philosophers have over the last century likewise expressed doubts about Einstein's treatment of the relativistic behaviour of rigid bodies and clocks in motion in the kinematical part of his great paper, and suggested that the dynamical understanding of length contraction and time dilation intimated by the immediate precursors of Einstein is more fundamental. Harvey Brown both examines and extends these arguments (which support a more 'constructive' approach to relativistic effects in Einstein's terminology), after giving a careful analysis of key features of the pre-history of relativity theory. He argues furthermore that the geometrization of the theory by Minkowski in 1908 brought illumination, but not a causal explanation of relativistic effects. Finally, Brown tries to show that the dynamical interpretation of special relativity defended in the book is consistent with the role this theory must play as a limiting case of Einstein's 1915 theory of gravity: the general theory of relativity. Appearing in the centennial year of Einstein's celebrated paper on special relativity, Physical Relativity is an unusual, critical examination of the way Einstein formulated his theory. It also examines in detail certain specific historical and conceptual issues that have long given rise to debate in both special and general relativity theory, such as the conventionality of simultaneity, the principle of general covariance, and the consistency or otherwise of the special theory with quantum mechanics. Harvey Brown' s new interpretation of relativity theory will interest anyone working on these central topics in modern physics.

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