The relativity of inertia and reality of nothing

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2009.08.003zbMATH Open1228.83004arXiv0804.3146OpenAlexW2153836444MaRDI QIDQ652799FDOQ652799

Authors: Alexander Afriat, Ermenegildo Caccese 

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)

Abstract: We first see that the inertia of Newtonian mechanics is absolute and troublesome. General relativity can be viewed as Einstein's attempt to remedy, by making inertia relative, to matter---perhaps imperfectly though, as at least a couple of freedom degrees separate inertia from matter in his theory. We consider ways the relationist (for whom it is of course unwelcome) can try to overcome such undetermination, dismissing it as physically meaningless, especially by insisting on the right transformation properties.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0804.3146

Recommendations

• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 876709
• From the relativity of inertia to the closed universe
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 537047
• Classical and quantum inertia: A matter of principles
• About the physical nature of inertia and its relation to gravitation. II.

zbMATH Keywords

energy conservationinertiageneral relativityMach's principleEinsteingravitational waves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) History of relativity and gravitational theory (83-03)

Cites Work

• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Mach's principle: from Newton's bucket to quantum gravity. Based on the conference at Tübingen, Germany, July 1993
• The Hole Truth
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Quantum Gravity
• Quasi-local energy-momentum and angular momentum in gr: a review article
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Traveling at the speed of thought. Einstein and the quest for gravitational waves
• Variational formulation of general relativity from 1915 to 1925 Palatini's method discovered by Einstein in 1925
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• By their properties, causes and effects: Newton's scholium on time, space, place and motion—I. The text
• Explaining Leibniz equivalence as difference of non-inertial appearances: dis-solution of the hole argument and physical individuation of point-events
• The York map as a Shanmugadhasan canonical transformation in tetrad gravity and the role of non-inertial frames in the geometrical view of the gravitational field
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Another look at general covariance and the equivalence of reference frames
• How Weyl stumbled across electricity while pursuing mathematical justice
• The physical role of gravitational and gauge degrees of freedom in general relativity. II: Dirac versus Bergmann observables and the objectivity of space-time
• The physical role of gravitational and gauge degrees of freedom in general relativity. I: Dynamical synchronization and generalized inertial effects
• Two challenges to the requirement of substantive general covariance
• Hilbert's `Foundations of physics': gravitation and electromagnetism within the axiomatic method
• Energy conservation in GTR
• THE CHRONO-GEOMETRICAL STRUCTURE OF SPECIAL AND GENERAL RELATIVITY: A RE-VISITATION OF CANONICAL GEOMETRODYNAMICS
• Surplus Structure from the Standpoint of Transcendental Idealism: The “World Geometries” of Weyl and Eddington
• Space and observers in cosmology
• Title not available (Why is that?)

Cited In (6)

• Title not available (Why is that?)
• There Is No Conspiracy of Inertia
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• The infinity from nothing paradox and the immovable object meets the irresistible force
• A real ensemble interpretation of quantum mechanics
• The plasticine ball argument. Hermann Weyl, the homogeneity of space and Mach's principle

This page was built for publication: The relativity of inertia and reality of nothing

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q652799)