Infinities as natural places

DOI10.1007/S10699-018-9556-0MaRDI QIDQ2289684zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Juliano C. S. Neves

Publication date 24 January 2020

Published in Foundations of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.07995

zbMATH Keywords

AristotleCarter-Penrose diagramsgeneral relativitynatural places

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05)

Abstract: It is shown that a notion of natural place is possible within modern physics. For Aristotle, the elements$-$the primary components of the world$-$follow to their natural places in the absence of forces. On the other hand, in general relativity, the so-called Carter-Penrose diagrams offer a notion of end for objects along the geodesics. Then, the notion of natural place in Aristotelian physics has an analog in the notion of conformal infinities in general relativity.

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