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The Necessary Structure of the All-pervading Aether - Discrete or Continuous? Simple or Symmetric?

English · Hardback

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In this book I investigate the necessary structure of the aether - the stuff that fills the whole universe. Some of my conclusions are. 1. There is an enormous variety of structures that the aether might, for all we know, have. 2. Probably the aether is point-free. 3. In that case, it should be distinguished from Space-time, which is either a fiction or a construct. 4. Even if the aether has points, we should reject the orthodoxy that all regions are grounded in points by summation. 5. If the aether is point-free but not continuous, its most likely structure has extended atoms that are not simples. 6. Space-time is symmetric if and only if the aether is continuous. 7. If the aether is continuous, we should reject the standard interpretation of General Relativity, in which geometry determines gravity. 8. Contemporary physics undermines an objection to discrete aether based on scale invariance, but does not offer much positive support.

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Authors Peter Forrest
Publisher De Gruyter
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 15.05.2013
 
EAN 9783110325171
ISBN 978-3-11-032517-1
No. of pages 226
Dimensions 154 mm x 19 mm x 217 mm
Weight 396 g
Series Philosophische Analyse /Philosophical Analysis
Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis
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Subjects Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > 20th and 21st centuries
Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day

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