The Structure of Space and Time

Walter Thirring and Evans Harrell
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Walter Thirring: University of Vienna, Institute for Theoretical Physics
Evans Harrell: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Chapter 6 in A Course in Mathematical Physics 1, 1978, pp 235-250 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In physics, space and time are defined by the way yardsticks and clocks behave, which in turn is determined by the equations of motion. It is this reasoning that gives a concrete significance to the mathematical structure of our formalism.

Keywords: Minkowski Space; Causal Structure; Canonical Projection; Galilean Transformation; Isotropic Universe (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1978
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7091-8526-1_6

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