Physical Relativity Space-time structure from a dynamical perspective

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Space-Time Structure from a Dynamical Perspective

BROWN HARVEY R(Autor*in)

Oxford University Press

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Erschienen am 25. Oktober 2007

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Intro
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Overview
1.1 When the Whole Rigmarole Began
1.2 FitzGerald, Michelson, and Heaviside
1.3 Einstein
1.4 FitzGerald and Bell's 'Lorentzian Pedagogy'
1.5 What Space-time Is not
1.6 Final Remarks
2. The Physics of Coordinate Transformations
2.1 Space-time and Its Coordinatization
2.2 Inertial Coordinate Systems
2.2.1 Free particles
2.2.2 Inertial coordinates
2.2.3 Newtonian time
2.2.4 Newtonian space
2.2.5 The role of space-time geometry
2.2.6 Quantum probes
2.3 The Linearity of Inertial Coordinate Transformations
2.4 The Rod and Clock Protocols
3. The Relativity Principle and the Fable of Albert Keinstein
3.1 The Relativity Principle: the Legacy of Galileo and Newton
3.1.1 Galileo
3.1.2 Newton
3.2 The Non-sequitur in Newton's Corollary V
3.3 Keinstein's 1705 Derivation
3.4 The Dynamics-Kinematics Connection
4. The Trailblazers
4.1 Michelson
4.1.1 The Michelson-Morley experiment revisited
4.2 Michelson-Morley Kinematics
4.3 FitzGerald and Heaviside
4.4 Lorentz
4.5 Larmor
4.6 Poincaré
4.7 The Role of the Ether Prior to Einstein
5. Einstein's Principle-theory Approach
5.1 Einstein's Template: Thermodynamics
5.2 The Principle vs. Constructive Theory Distinction
5.3 Einstein's Postulates
5.3.1 The relativity principle
5.3.2 The light postulate
5.4 Einstein's Derivation of the Lorentz Transformations
5.4.1 Clock synchrony
5.4.2 The k-Lorentz transformations
5.4.3 RP and isotropy
5.5 Rods and Clocks
5.6 The Experimental Evidence for the Lorentz transformations
5.6.1 The 1932 Kennedy-Thorndike experiment
5.6.2 The situation so far
5.6.3 The 1938 Ives-Stilwell experiment
5.7 Are Einstein's Inertial Frames the Same as Newton's?
5.8 Final Remarks
6. Variations on the Einstein Theme
6.1 Einstein's Operationalism: Too Much and Too Little?
6.2 What is a Clock?
6.2.1 The clock hypothesis
6.3 The Conventionality of Distant Simultaneity
6.3.1 Malament's 1977 result
6.3.2 The Edwards-Winnie synchrony-general transformations
6.4 Relaxing the Light Postulate: the Ignatowski Transformations
6.4.1 Comments
6.5 The Non-relativistic Limit
7. Unconventional Voices on Special Relativity
7.1 Einstein himself
7.2 1918: Hermann Weyl
7.3 1920s: Pauli and Eddington
7.4 1930s and 1940s: W. F. G. Swann
7.5 1970s: L. Jánossy and J. S. Bell
7.5.1 L. Jánossy
7.5.2 J. S. Bell. Conceptual issues
7.5.3 Historical niceties
8. What is Special Relativity?
8.1 Minkowski's Geometrization of SR
8.1.1 Kinematics
8.1.2 Dynamics
8.2 Minkowski Space-time: the Cart or the Horse?
8.2.1 The cases of configuration and 'kinematic' space
8.2.2 The projective Hilbert space
8.2.3 Carathéodory: the Minkowski of thermodynamics
8.3 What does Absolute Geometry Explain?
8.3.1 The space-time 'explanation' of inertia
8.3.2 Mystery of mysteries
8.4 What is Special Relativity?
8.4.1 The big principle
8.4.2 Quantum theory
9. The View from General Relativity
9.1 Introduction
9.2 The Field Equations
9.2.1 The Lovelock-Grigore theorems
9.2.2 The threat of underdetermination
9.2.3 Matter
9.3 Test Particles and the Geodesic Principle
9.4 Light and the Null Cones
9.4.1 Non-minimal coupling
9.5 The Strong Equivalence Principle
9.5.1 The local validity of special relativity
9.5.2 A recent development
9.6 Conclusions
Appendix A: Einstein on General Covariance
Appendix B: Special Relativity and Quantum Theory
B.1 Introduction
B.2 Entanglement, Non-Locality, and Bell Inequalities
B.3 Einstein, Relativity, and Separability
B.4 Non-locality, or Its Absence, in the Everett Intepretation
Bibliography
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