Publication Date: 2007
ISBN: 978-1-4020-6318-3
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The main focus of this volume is the question: is spacetime nothing more than a mathematical space (which describes the evolution in time of the ordinary three-dimensional world) or is it a mathematical model of a real four-dimensional world with time entirely given as the fourth dimension.
Subject: Physics and Astronomy, Lorentzian space-time, Minkowski space, Minkowski spacetime, Relativity, Universe, four-dimensional reality, general relativity, non-relativistic quantum mechanics, quantum mechanics, temporal dimension, theory of relativity