Action and Reaction: Studies on Motion and Contradiction in Physics

by Renate Wahsner

The focus of this work is to explain the "trick" physics devised in order to grasp motion, a concept philosophically considered as a contradiction in itself, in such a way that it could be measured and calculated. With this aim in mind, the dualism of space-time and matter within classical mechanics, the general theory of relativity, quantum mechanics, non-linear thermodynamics, and quantum gravity is analyzed, demonstrating its measurement-theoretical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3897227401
• ISBN13: 9783897227408
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Logos Verlag Berlin
• Length: 156 Pages