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Symmetry, Structure, and Spacetime: Volume 3

Symmetry, Structure, and Spacetime: Volume 3

Rickles, Dean

Hardcover

Series: Philosophy and Foundations of Physics, Book 3

History & Philosophy of SciencePhysics

ISBN10: 0444531165
ISBN13: 9780444531162
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Published: Nov 12 2007
Pages: 242
Weight: 1.33
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.75 Depth: 9.46
Language: English
In this book Rickles considers several interpretative difficulties raised by gauge-type symmetries (those that correspond to no change in physical state). The ubiquity of such symmetries in modern physics renders them an urgent topic in philosophy of physics. Rickles focuses on spacetime physics, and in particular classical and quantum general relativity. Here the problems posed are at their most pathological, involving the apparent disappearance of spacetime! Rickles argues that both traditional ontological positions should be replaced by a structuralist account according to which relational structure is what the physics is about.

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