On the (In?)Stability of Spacetime Inextendibility.

Leibnizian metaphysics underpins the universally held view that spacetime must be inextendible—that it must be "as large as it can be" in a sense. But here we demonstrate a surprising fact within the context of general relativity: the property of inextendibility turns out to be unstable when attenti...

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Publicado en:Philosophy of Science Vol. 90; no. 5; pp. 1331 - 1342
Autor principal: Manchak, JB
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Publicado: Cambridge University Press Dec2023
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