Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics Festschrift in Honor of John Stachel
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2003, 2003
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Table of Contents:
- I: Historical and Philosophical Roots of Relativity
- The Prehistory of Relativity
- Interpretations and Equations of the Michelson Experiment and its Variations
- The Trouton Experiment, E = mc2, and a Slice of Minkowski Space-Time
- The N-Stein Family
- Eclipses of the Stars: Mandl, Einstein, and the Early History of Gravitational Lensing
- The Varieties of Unity: Sounding Unified Theories 1920–1930
- Indiscernibles, General Covariance, and Other Symmetries: The Case for Non-Reductive Relationalism
- On Relative Orbital Rotation in Relativity Theory
- II: Foundational Issues in Relativity and their Advancement
- The Unique Nature of Cosmology
- Time, Structure, and Evolution in Cosmology
- Timekeeping in an Expanding Universe
- Gravitational Lensing from a Space-Time Perspective
- Rigidly Rotating Disk Revisted
- DSS 2+2
- Geometry, Null Hypersurfaces and New Variables
- On Vacuum Twisting Type-N Again
- Quasi-Local Energy
- Space-Time Defects: Open and Closed Shells Revisited
- Dimensionally Challenged Gravities
- A Note on Holonomic Constraints
- Towards an Action-at-a-Distance Concept of Spacetime
- III: Foundational Issues in Quantum Physics and their Advancement
- Inevitability, Inseparability and Gedanken Measurement
- The Concept of Quantum State: New Views on Old Phenomena
- Elementary Processes
- On Quantum Non-Locality, Special Relativity, and Counterfactual Reasoning
- Coherence, Entanglement, and Reductionist Explanation in Quantum Physics
- IV: Science, History, and the Challenges of Progress
- Physics and Science Fiction
- Can We Learn From History? Do We Want To?
- Patterns of Appropriation in the Greek Intellectual Life of the 18th Century: Case Study on the Notion of Time
- Darwin, Marx, and Warranted Progress: Materialism and Views of Developmentin Nineteenth-Century Germany
- Albert Einstein and the Founding of Brandeis University
- John Stachel’s Publications