The Necessary Structure of the All-pervading Aether: Discrete or Continuous? Simple or Symmetric? (Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis, Band 49) - Hardcover

Forrest, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 386838166X ISBN 13: 9783868381665

Verlag: Editiones Scholasticae, 2013

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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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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.

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• Verlag: Editiones Scholasticae
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 386838166X
• ISBN 13: 9783868381665
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 226
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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