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The Necessary Structure of the All-pervading Aether: Discrete or Continuous? Simple or Symmetric?
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Abstract 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 dist... mehr
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.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Wissenschaftstheorie; Ontologie; Philosophie; Metaphysik; Raum; Zeit
Klassifikation
Philosophie, Theologie
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2013
Verlag
De Gruyter
Erscheinungsort
Berlin
Seitenangabe
226 S.
Schriftenreihe
Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis, 49
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110325928
ISBN
978-3-11-032592-8
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
Deposit Licence - Keine Weiterverbreitung, keine Bearbeitung