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Lectures on Physics and the Nature of Scientific Knowledge
This is a new publication of eight of Schr dinger's lectures: "Science, Art and Play""The Law of Chance""Indeterminism In Physics""Is Science a Fashion of the Times?""Physical …
The Universe in the Light of Modern Physics
This volume includes new publications of Max Planck's book "The Universe in the Light of Modern Physics" and four papers: "Phantom Problems in Science," "The Meaning and Limits of …
Space, Time, and Spacetime
In 1908 Hermann Minkowski gave the four-dimensional(spacetime) formulationof special relativity[1]. In fact,HenriPoincare[ ' 2] rst noticedin1906that the Lorentz transformations …
History of Physics
Seven Fundamental Concepts in Spacetime Physics
The book presents seven fundamental concepts in spacetime physics mostly by following Hermann Minkowski’s revolutionary ideas summarized in his 1908 lecture "Space and Time." These …
Papers On Curved Spaces and Cosmology
If the talented Russian physicist Alexander Alexandrovich Friedmann had to be introduced with a single sentence, the most appropriate sentence would be the title of his biography …
The Foundations of Geometry
Neither general relativity (which revealed that gravity is merely manifestation of the non-Euclidean geometry of spacetime) nor modern cosmology would have been possible without …
Minkowski Spacetime: A Hundred Years Later
This volume is dedicated to the one hundredth anniversary of the publication of Hermann Minkowski's paper "Raum und Zeit" in 1909 [1]. The paper presents the …
Space and Time
This is the first publication (in German or English) of Hermann Minkowski's three papers on relativity together: (i) The Relativity Principle - lecture given at the meeting of the …
Relativity and the Nature of Spacetime
This expanded second edition of Relativity and the Nature of Spacetime c- tains several major changes and a number of additions to different ch- ters. Two chapters (Chaps. 6 and …
Our Understanding of Matter and the Universe
Relativity and the Dimensionality of the World
All physicists would agree that one of the most fundamental problems of the 21st century physics is the dimensionality of the world. In the four-dimensional world of Minkowski (or …