General Relativity Needs No Interpretation.
I argue that, contrary to the recent claims of physicists and philosophers of physics, general relativity requires no interpretation in any substantive sense of the term. I canvass the common reasons given in favor of the alleged need for an interpretation, including the difficulty in coming to grip...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy of Science Vol. 76; no. 1; pp. 44 - 73 |
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Cambridge University Press
Jan2009
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