Can we know the global structure of spacetime?

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2008.07.004zbMATH Open1228.83021OpenAlexW2109562630MaRDI QIDQ652791FDOQ652791

Authors: John Byron Manchak 

Publication date: 17 December 2011

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/4162/1/manchak.global.struct.pdf

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zbMATH Keywords

underdeterminationcosmologyepistemologygeneral relativityobservational indistinguishability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Cites Work

• The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time
• General Relativity
• Topology, cosmology and convention
• The underdetermination of total theories

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