Petkov Minkowski Spacetime: A Hundred Years Later

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-90-481-3475-5
Verlag: Springer Netherland
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 165, 326 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Fundamental Theories of Physics

Celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the 1909 publication of Minkowski's seminal paper 'Space and Time', this volume includes a fresh translation as well as the original in German, and a number of contributed papers on the still-controversial subject.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Petkov, Vesselin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Impact of Minkowski Spacetime on the Twentieth Century Physics from a Historical Perspective.- Hermann Minkowski, Relativity and the Axiomatic Approach to Physics.- Minkowski’s Modern World.- Implications of Minkowski Spacetime for Theoretical Physics.- Hermann Minkowski and Special Relativity.- The Rich Structure of Minkowski Space.- Minkowski Space-Time and Quantum Mechanics.- Modern Space-Time and Undecidability.- Quantum Space-Times.- Space-Time Extensions in Quantum Gravity.- Conceptual and Philosophical Issues of Minkowski Spacetime.- The Adolescence of Relativity: Einstein, Minkowski, and the Philosophy of Space and Time.- Hermann Minkowski: From Geometry of Numbers to Physical Geometry.- The Mystical Formula and The Mystery of Khronos.- Physical Laws and Worldlines in Minkowski Spacetime.- Time as an Illusion.- Consequences of Minkowski’s Unification of Space and Time for a Philosophy of Nature.