Book ID: CBB000430181

Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics: Festschrift in Honor of John Stachel (2003)

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Ashtekar, Abhay (Editor)
Cohen, Robert S. (Editor)
Howard, Don A. (Editor)
Renn, Jürgen (Editor)
Sarkar, Sahotra (Editor)
Shimony, Abner (Editor)


Kluwer
Publication date: 2003
Language: English


Publication Date: 2003
Physical Details: xxii + 649 pp.; illus.

Description Contents:


Includes Chapters

Chapter Eisenstaedt, Jean (2003) The Prehistory of Relativity. In: Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics: Festschrift in Honor of John Stachel (p. 3). unapi

Chapter Melcher, Horst (2003) Interpretations and Equations of the Michelson Experiment and its Variations. In: Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics: Festschrift in Honor of John Stachel (p. 13). unapi

Chapter Janssen, Michel (2003) The Trouton Experiment, E = mc2, and a Slice of Minkowski Space-Time. In: Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics: Festschrift in Honor of John Stachel (p. 27). unapi

Chapter Norton, John D. (2003) The N-Stein Family. In: Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics: Festschrift in Honor of John Stachel (p. 55). unapi

Chapter Renn, Jürgen; Sauer, Tilman (2003) Eclipses of the Stars: Mandl, Einstein, and the Early History of Gravitational Lensing. In: Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics: Festschrift in Honor of John Stachel (p. 69). unapi

Chapter Goldstein, Catherine; Ritter, Jim (2003) The Varieties of Unity: Sounding Unified Theories, 1920--1930. In: Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics: Festschrift in Honor of John Stachel (p. 93). unapi

Chapter Saunders, Simon (2003) Indiscernibles, General Covariance, and Other Symmetries: The Case for Non-Reductive Relationalism. In: Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics: Festschrift in Honor of John Stachel (p. 151). unapi

Chapter Malament, David B. (2003) On Relative Orbital Rotation in Relativity Theory. In: Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics: Festschrift in Honor of John Stachel (p. 175). unapi

Chapter Ellis, George E. R. (2003) The Unique Nature of Cosmology. In: Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics: Festschrift in Honor of John Stachel (p. 193). unapi

Chapter Smolin, Lee (2003) Time, Structure, and Evolution in Cosmology. In: Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics: Festschrift in Honor of John Stachel (p. 221). unapi

Chapter Anderson, James L. (2003) Timekeeping in an Expanding Universe. In: Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics: Festschrift in Honor of John Stachel (p. 275). unapi

Chapter Janis, Allen I. (2003) Physics and Science Fiction. In: Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics: Festschrift in Honor of John Stachel (p. 545). unapi

Chapter Gavroglu, Kostas; Patiniotis, Manolis (2003) Patterns of Appropriation in the Greek Intellectual Life of the 18th Century: A Case Study on the Notion of Time. In: Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics: Festschrift in Honor of John Stachel (p. 569). unapi

Chapter Lefèvre, Wolfgang (2003) Darwin, Marx, and Warranted Progress: Materialism and Views of Development in Nineteenth-Century Germany. In: Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics: Festschrift in Honor of John Stachel (p. 593). unapi

Chapter Schweber, Silvan S. (2003) Albert Einstein and the Founding of Brandeis University. In: Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics: Festschrift in Honor of John Stachel (p. 615). unapi

Chapter Author missing; (2003) John Stachel's Publications. In: Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics: Festschrift in Honor of John Stachel (p. 641). unapi

Chapter Ehlers, Jürgen; Frittelli, Simonetta; Newman, Ezra T. (2003) Gravitational Lensing from a Space-Time Perspective. In: Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics: Festschrift in Honor of John Stachel (p. 281). unapi

Chapter Vishveshwara, C. V. (2003) Rigidly Rotating Disk Revisted. In: Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics: Festschrift in Honor of John Stachel (p. 305). unapi

Chapter d'Inverno, Ray A. (2003) DSS 2+2. In: Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics: Festschrift in Honor of John Stachel (p. 317). unapi

Chapter Robinson, David C. (2003) Geometry, Null Hypersurfaces, and New Variables. In: Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics: Festschrift in Honor of John Stachel (p. 349). unapi

Chapter Plebański, Jerzy F.; Przanowski, Maciej (2003) On Vacuum Twisting Type-N Again. In: Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics: Festschrift in Honor of John Stachel (p. 361). unapi

Chapter Goldberg, Joshua N. (2003) Quasi-Local Energy. In: Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics: Festschrift in Honor of John Stachel (p. 375). unapi

Chapter Gleiser, Reinaldo J.; Letelier, Patricio S. (2003) Space-Time Defects: Open and Closed Shells Revisited. In: Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics: Festschrift in Honor of John Stachel (p. 383). unapi

Chapter Deser, S. (2003) Dimensionally Challenged Gravities. In: Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics: Festschrift in Honor of John Stachel (p. 397). unapi

Chapter Tulczyjew, Wlodzimierz M. (2003) A Note on Holonomic Constraints. In: Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics: Festschrift in Honor of John Stachel (p. 403). unapi

Chapter Wesley, Daniel H.; Wheeler, John Archibald (2003) Towards an Action-at-a-Distance Concept of Spacetime. In: Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics: Festschrift in Honor of John Stachel (p. 421). unapi

Chapter Beller, Mara (2003) Inevitability, Inseparability and Gedanken Measurement. In: Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics: Festschrift in Honor of John Stachel (p. 439). unapi

Chapter Paty, Michel (2003) Concept of Quantum State: New Views on Old Phenomena. In: Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics: Festschrift in Honor of John Stachel (p. 451). unapi

Chapter Ritz Finkelstein, David (2003) Elementary Processes. In: Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics: Festschrift in Honor of John Stachel (p. 479). unapi

Chapter Shimony, Abner; Stein, Howard (2003) On Quantum Non-Locality, Special Relativity, and Counterfactual Reasoning. In: Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics: Festschrift in Honor of John Stachel (p. 499). unapi

Chapter Jaeger, Gregg; Sarkar, Sahotra (2003) Coherence, Entanglement, and Reductionist Explanation in Quantum Physics. In: Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics: Festschrift in Honor of John Stachel (p. 523). unapi

Chapter Tisza, Laszlo (2003) Can We Learn From History? Do We Want To?. In: Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics: Festschrift in Honor of John Stachel (p. 555). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Yourgrau, Palle
Balashov, Yuri
Crelinsten, Jeffrey
Di Mauro, P.
Kumar, Manjit
Mermin, N. David
Journals
Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza
Philosophy of Science
Physics in Perspective
Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza
Revue d'Histoire des Sciences
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
Publishers
Guaraldi
Basic Books
Beck
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Birkhäuser
Carocci Editore
Concepts
Relativity
Physics
Philosophy of science
Philosophy
Astronomy
Quantum mechanics
People
Einstein, Albert
Bohr, Niels Henrik David
Gödel, Kurt
Planck, Max
Descartes, René
Enriques, Federigo
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
21st century
17th century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Europe
Germany
Italy
Russia
England
Institutions
Harvard University
Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
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