Necessary Structure of the All-Pervading Aether: Discrete or Continuous? Simple or Symmetric? (Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis) - Hardcover

Forrest, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 386838166X ISBN 13: 9783868381665

Publisher: ontos verlag, 2012

Synopsis

In this book I investigate the necessary structure of the aether the stuff that fills the whole universe. Some of my conclusions are. 1. There is an enormous variety of structures that the aether might, for all we know, have. 2. Probably the aether is point-free. 3. In that case, it should be distinguished from Space-time, which is either a fiction or a construct. 4. Even if the aether has points, we should reject the orthodoxy that all regions are grounded in points by summation. 5. If the aether is point-free but not continuous, its most likely structure has extended atoms that are not simple. 6. Space-time is symmetric if and only if the aether is continuous. 7. If the aether is continuous, we should reject the standard interpretation of General Relativity, in which geometry determines gravity. 8. Contemporary physics undermines an objection to discrete aether based on scale invariance, but does not offer much positive support.

Edition details

• Publisher: ontos verlag
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 386838166X
• ISBN 13: 9783868381665
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 226