The Philosophy of Vacuum
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 13 June 1991
- ISBN 9780198244493
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages300 pages
- Size 223x145x23 mm
- Weight 481 g
- Language English
- Illustrations line figures 0
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Short description:
This book deals with a very important subject - the philosophy of physics is currently very popular among philosophers of science and the vacuum in particular is emerging as the central structure of modern physics. The book's most notable feature is the inclusion of a hitherto untranslated paper by Albert Einstein, but the other contributors are very distinguished, and they include Sir Roger Penrose, author of The Emperor's New Mind. The collection also has some interdisciplinary appeal - it will interest be of interest to philosophers working in metaphysics and to physicists and mathematicians, as well as to philosophers of science.
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BL Contains a hitherto untranslated paper by Einstein.
The vacuum is fast emerging as the central structure of modern physics. How is this possible? What is the vacuum concept, and why is it so important? This collection brings together philosophically-minded specialists who engage these issues in the context of classical gravity, quantum electrodynamics, and the grand unification programme. The vacuum emerges as the synthesis of concepts of space, time, and matter; in the context of relativity and the quantum this new synthesis represents a structure of the most intricate and novel complexity.
The Philosophy of Vacuum is unashamedly a project in metaphysics. The science of our time has transformed the concepts of space and time and of force and matter, yet the philosophy of Bohr and his school has found small purchase on the contemporary concerns of physics, and there are few guidelines to be found within the empiricist tradition of contemporary philosophy. However slippery the conundrums of metaphysical realism, the message of contemporary science remains the same: concepts and heuristics are grounded in consideration of what exists in the world. Here, then, is a work in modern metaphysics, in which the concepts of substance and space interweave in the most intangible of forms, the background and context of our physical experience: vacuum, void or nothingness.
The ideas expressed by the physicists are in many cases very interesting and challenging ... A very interesting collection
Table of Contents:
Simon Saunders: Introduction; Albert Einstein: On the ether; R. Penrose: The mass of the classical vacuum; Simon Saunders & Harvey R. Brown: Reflections on ether; Simon Saunders: The negative-energy sea; Gordon N. Fleming: The vacuum on null planes; D.W. Sciama: The physical significance of the vacuum state of a quantum field; I.J.R. Aitchison: The vacuum and unification; Robert Weingard: Making everything out of nothing; B.J. Hiley: Vacuum or holomovement; David Finklestein: Theory of vacuum; Michael Atiyah: Topology of the vacuum; Peter J. Braam: How empty is the vacuum?; Index.
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