The Necessary Structure of the All-pervading Aether

Peter Forrest

ISBN 10: 3110325179 / ISBN 13: 9783110325171

Verlag: De Gruyter, De Gruyter Feb 2013, 2013

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This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -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.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 232 pp. Englisch.

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• Titel: The Necessary Structure of the All-pervading Aether
• Verlag: De Gruyter, De Gruyter Feb 2013
• Veröffentlichungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3110325179
• ISBN-13: 9783110325171
• Bindung: Buch
• Zustand: Neu

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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.