On the invariance and intrinsicality of four-dimensional shapes in Special Relativity.

Are shapes of objects intrinsic to them? The issue has been intensely debated. Special relativity (SR) adds a new dimension to it by relativizing three-dimensional (3D) shapes not just to times, but to times-in-frames. Arguably, however, such relativized spatial shapes are mere perspectival represen...

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Publicado en:Analysis Vol. 74; no. 4; pp. 608 - 613
Autor principal: Balashov, Yuri
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Oct2014
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