Is spacetime curved? Assessing the underdetermination of general relativity and teleparallel gravity.

Realism about general relativity (GR) seems to imply realism about spacetime curvature. The existence of the teleparallel equivalent of general relativity (TEGR) calls this into question, for (a) TEGR is set in a torsionful but flat spacetime, and (b) TEGR is empirically equivalent to GR. Knox (Stud...

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Published in:Synthese Vol. 204; no. 4; pp. 1 - 30
Main Authors: Mulder, Ruward, Read, James
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Oct2024
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost