Minkowski spacetime and Lorentz invariance: the cart and the horse or two sides of a single coin?

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2016.04.002zbMath1348.83013OpenAlexW2417427520MaRDI QIDQ333939

Pablo Acuña

Publication date: 31 October 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: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/14312/1/Minkowski%20Spacetime%20and%20Lorentz%20Invariance%20preprint.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

Lorentz invarianceexplanationMinkowski spacetimeconstructive theoriesspacetime ontologytheories of principle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special relativity (83A05) Physics (00A79)

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