The Singular Nature of Spacetime.
We consider to what extent the fundamental question of spacetime singularities is relevant for the philosophical debate about the nature of spacetime. After reviewing some basic aspects of the spacetime singularities within general relativity, we argue that the well known difficulty to localize them...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy of Science Vol. 74; no. 5; pp. 712 - 724 |
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Cambridge University Press
Dec2007
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