Physical Relativity: Space-Time Structure from a Dynamical Perspective

by Harvey R. Brown

Book Overview

It is not widely known that Einstein had doubts, increasing with time, about the way he formulated his special theory of relativity in 1905. Physical Relativity examines the grounds of these doubts and related misgivings on the part of a handful of physicists and philosophers in the course of the twentieth century. Harvey Brown defends an interpretation of relativity theory, and hence of the nature of space and time, that combines Einstein's insights...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199275831
• ISBN13: 9780199275830
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"