Infinities as natural places

DOI10.1007/S10699-018-9556-0zbMATH Open1428.00016arXiv1803.07995OpenAlexW2793259569MaRDI QIDQ2289684FDOQ2289684

Authors: Juliano C. S. Neves 

Publication date: 24 January 2020

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

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.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

general relativityAristotleCarter-Penrose diagramsnatural places

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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