
The Necessary Structure of the All-pervading Aether
Discrete or Continuous? Simple or Symmetric?
Peter Forrest(Author)
editiones scholasticae (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 7. September 2012
Book
Hardback
226 pages
978-3-86838-166-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Heusenstamm
Germany
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 21 cm
Width: 14.8 cm
Weight
402 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-86838-166-5 (9783868381665)
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Person
Peter Forrest is Adjunct Professor of Philosophy in the School of Humanities at the University of New England, Armidale. His major research interest is in metaphysics and its applications to religion, time and physics. His previous books are The Dynamics of Belief, Quantum Metaphysics, God without the Supernatural, and, Developmental Theism.