Maxwell Gravitation

被引:9
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作者
Dewar, Neil [1 ]
机构
[1] Ludwig Maximilians Univ Munchen, Munich Ctr Math Philosophy, Munich, Germany
基金
英国艺术与人文研究理事会;
关键词
GEOMETRY; SYMMETRY;
D O I
10.1086/696387
中图分类号
N09 [自然科学史]; B [哲学、宗教];
学科分类号
01 ; 0101 ; 010108 ; 060207 ; 060305 ; 0712 ;
摘要
This article gives an explicit presentation of Newtonian gravitation on the backdrop of Maxwell space-time, giving a sense in which acceleration is relative in gravitational theory. However, caution is needed: assessing whether this is a robust or interesting sense of the relativity of acceleration depends on some subtle technical issues and on substantive philosophical questions over how to identify the space-time structure of a theory.
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页码:249 / 270
页数:22
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