Relativity and the Nature of Spacetime

by Vesselin Petkov

The most important question addressed in this book is "what is the nature (the ontological status) of spacetime?" or, equivalently, "what is the dimensionality of the world at the macroscopic level?" The answer to this question is developed via a thorough analysis of relativistic effects and explicitly asking whether the objects involved in those effects are three-dimensional or four-dimensional. This analysis clearly shows that if the world and the physical objects were three-dimensional, none of the kinematic relativistic effects and the experimental evidence supporting them would be possible. The implications of this result for physics, philosophy, and our entire world view are discussed.

Genres: Science, Physics, Mathematics

294 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2009

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[Erickson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very enlightening, be it from the philosophical point of view or from its physical point of view. There are new insights not commonly found in introductory texts, such as euclidean rotational transformation being intimately related to Lorentz transformation and the concept of four-dimensionalism.

[Shahrokh Rostampur · Rating 5 out of 5]

best book to Understand Relativity, unfortunately, I have no authority on introducing this valuable book to Physics students but, I have a long problem with the concept of simultaneity, and thanks to this book I achieved a satisfactory Understanding of SR