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WHY NEWTON'S ABSOLUTE SPACE-TIME IS NOT SO ABSOLUTE AND EINSTEIN'S RELATIVE SPACE-TIME IS NOT SO RELATIVE.

All of us are used to thinking that space and time in Newton's theory of universal gravitation are absolute, while those in Einstein's theory of Relativity are relative. And in a sense that is true, of course: indeed, the existence and properties of Newton's space-time are independent of anything el...

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Published in:Epistemologia Vol. 37; no. 1; pp. 152 - 158
Main Author: Musso, Paolo
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature 2014
Subjects:
Newton's law of gravitation
Gravitation
Spacetime
Relativity
Metaphysical cosmology
Technology
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