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Space, Time, and Stuff (Hardcover)
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Space, Time, and Stuff (Hardcover)
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Frank Arntzenius presents a series of radical new ideas about the
structure of space and time. Space, Time, and Stuff is an attempt
to show that physics is geometry: that the fundamental structure of
the physical world is purely geometrical structure. Along the way,
he examines some non-standard views about the structure of
spacetime and its inhabitants, including the idea that space and
time are pointless, the idea that quantum mechanics is a completely
local theory, the idea that antiparticles are just particles
travelling back in time, and the idea that time has no structure
whatsoever. The main thrust of the book, however, is that there are
good reasons to believe that spaces other than spacetime exist, and
that it is the existence of these additional spaces that allows one
to reduce all of physics to geometry. Philosophy, and metaphysics
in particular, plays an important role here: the assumption that
the fundamental laws of physics are simple in terms of the
fundamental physical properties and relations is pivotal. Without
this assumption one gets nowhere. That is to say, when trying to
extract the fundamental structure of the world from theories of
physics one ignores philosophy at one's peril!
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