Burgess and the bucket: the emergence of spacetime in classical theories of gravitation.

The paper studies in detail a precise formal construction of spacetime from matter suggested by the logician John Burgess. We presuppose a continuous and perdurantistic matter ontology. The result is a systematic method to translate claims about the geometry of a flat relativistic, or classical, spa...

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Publicado en:Synthese Vol. 205; no. 2; pp. 1 - 33
Autores principales: Cocco, Lorenzo, Babic, Joshua
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Feb2025
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