"Aristotle's definition of time as 'a number of motion with respect to the before and after' has been branded as patently circular by commentators ranging from Simplicius to W.D. Ross. In this book Tony Roark presents an interpretation of the definition that renders it not only …
Novel conceptual analysis, fresh historical perspectives, and concrete physical examples illuminate one of the most thought-provoking topicsin physics.
Arguments from math -- Arguments from philosophy -- Electrodynamics, QED, and early QFT -- Quantum gravity : prehistory -- Einstein on the notion of length -- Quantum gravity : current approaches -- The proof is in the pudding -- Coda. Quest for fundamental length in modern phy…
The idea of infinity plays a crucial role in our understanding of the universe, with the infinite spacetime continuum perhaps the best-known example - but is spacetime really continuous? Throughout the history of science, many have felt that the continuum model is an unphysical …
Der Raum und das Verständnis des Raums sind als große neue Themen der Philosophie im Gespräch. Die damit zusammenhängenden Fragen gewinnen derart an Bedeutung, dass von einem ""spatial turn"" der Wissenschaft gesprochen wird, in Entsprechung zum ""linguistic turn"", der das Gesi…
"In 1908, three years after Einstein first published his special theory of relativity, the mathematician Hermann Minkowski introduced his four-dimensional 'spacetime' interpretation of the theory. Einstein initially dismissed Minkowski's theory, remarking that 'since the mathema…
