Geometry, Fields, and Spacetime.
I present an argument against a relational theory of spacetime that regards spacetime as a 'structural quality of the field'. The argument takes the form of a trilemma. To make the argument, I focus on relativistic worlds in which there exist just two fields, an electromagnetic field and a gravitati...
| Publicado en: | British Journal for the Philosophy of Science Vol. 70; no. 4; pp. 1097 - 1118 |
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University of Chicago Press
Dec2019
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