On miracles and spacetime

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2018.10.002MaRDI QIDQ666922zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors James Read

Publication date 12 March 2019

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 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2018.10.002

zbMATH Keywords

dualitiesstring theoryrelativitychronogeometryspacetime functionalism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Special relativity (83A05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05)

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