Physical Relativity: Space-Time Structure from a Dynamical Perspective

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Physical Relativity: Space-Time Structure from a Dynamical Perspective

by Harvey Brown

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Physical Relativity explores the nature of the distinction at the heart of Einstein's 1905 formulation of his special theory of relativity: that between kinematics and dynamics. Einstein himself became increasingly uncomfortable with this distinction, and with the limitations of what he called the "principle theory" approach inspired by the logic of thermodynamics. A handful of physicists and philosophers have over the last century likewise expressed doubts about Einstein's treatment of the relativistic behavior of rigid bodies and clocks in motion in the kinematical part of his great paper, and suggested that the dynamical understanding of length contraction and time dilation intimated by the immediate precursors of Einstein is more fundamental.

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  • Oxford University Press, Brand
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  • 019923292X ISBN-10
  • 9780199232925 ISBN-13
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