Maximal motion and minimal matter: Aristotelian physics and special relativity.
This paper shows how key aspects of Aristotle’s core concepts of matter and motion, some of which have recently been shown to help make sense of quantum mechanical indeterminacy, align with some important results of the energy-momentum relationship of special relativity. In this conception, mobility...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 200; no. 5; pp. 1 - 28 |
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Springer Nature
Oct2022
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