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Mirror Symmetry: What is it for Relational Space to be Orientable?
space spacetime geometry symmetry
2008/4/15
As Pooley (2001) explains, the challenge of giving a relational account of orientability (and topology more generally) is not an easy one. This paper criticizes Pooley's and other proposals, raises a ...
It is argued that Minkowski space-time cannot serve as the deep structure within a ``constructive'' version of the special theory of relativity, contrary to widespread opinion in the philosophical com...
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that it is possible, in principle, to obtain knowledge of the entire universe at the present time, even if the radius of the universe is much larger than th...
Von Mises’ wine/water paradox has served as a foundation for detractors of the Principle of Indifference and logical probability. Mikkelson recently proposed a first solution, and here several additio...
Modern cosmology treats space and time, or rather space-time, as concrete particulars. The General Theory of Relativity combines the distribution of matter and energy with the curvature of space-time....
Handedness, parity violation, and the reality of space
incongruent counterparts parity violation
2008/4/14
In the first part of this paper a relational account of incongruent counterparts is defended against an argument due to Kant. I then consider a more recent attack on such an account, due to John Earma...
General Covariance and the Objectivity of Space-Time Point-Events
Hole Argument Space-time Objectivity Physical Individuation
2008/4/14
"The last remnant of physical objectivity of space-time"is disclosed, beyond the Leibniz equivalence, in the case of a continuous family of spatially non-compact models of general relativity. The "phy...
EPR-like ``funny business'' in the theory of branching space-times
branching space-times EPR
2008/4/11
EPR-like phenomena are (presumably)indeterministic, but they furthermore suggest thatour world involves seeming-strange ``funnybusiness.'' Without invoking any heavymathematics, the theory of branchi...
Does special relativity theory tell us anything new about space and time?
special relativity space-time operationalism
2008/4/11
It will be shown that, in comparison with the pre-relativistic Galileo-invariant conceptions, special relativity tells us nothing new about the geometry of spacetime. It simply calls something else "s...
``Branching space-time'' is a simple blend of relativity
and indeterminism. Postulates and definitions
rigorously describe the ``causal order'' relation
between possible point events. The key postu...
An Answer in Search of a Question: 'Proofs' of the Tri-Dimensionality of Space
space dimension stability topology explanation
2008/4/10
From Kant’s first published work to recent articles in the physics literature, philosophers and physicists have long sought an answer to the question, why does space have three dimensions. In this pap...
A branching space-times view on quantum error correction
indeterminism quantum mechanics branching
2008/4/9
In this paper we describe some first steps for bringing the framework of branching space-times to bear on quantum information theory. Our main application is quantum error correction. It is shown that...
This paper explores aspects of the notion of space among the 'street children' from a project called the "Art and Life House", in São Paulo city, Brazil. As we know, the human being and its act...
Entering Modeling Space An Apprenticeship in Molecular Modeling
molecular modeling molecular mechanics electronic structure
2008/4/7
Twenty years ago computer modeling had made its first major impact on the chemist’s patterns of thought. Now it is prominent in research and graduate education, and has made its presence felt througho...