Can we know the global structure of spacetime?

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2008.07.004MaRDI QIDQ652791zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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

cosmologyepistemologygeneral relativityobservational indistinguishabilityunderdetermination

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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