`\dots But I still cant get rid of a sense of artificiality': the Reichenbach-Einstein debate on the geometrization of the electromagnetic field

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2016.04.001zbMath1337.83003OpenAlexW2343023591MaRDI QIDQ291137

Marco Giovanelli

Publication date: 6 June 2016

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2016.04.001

zbMATH Keywords

general relativityAlbert EinsteingeometrizationHans Reichenbachunified field theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) History of relativity and gravitational theory (83-03) Physics (00A79) More general nonquantum field theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S20)

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