Which worldlines represent possible particle histories?

DOI10.1007/s10701-019-00260-4zbMath1481.00015OpenAlexW2946711065WikidataQ127871467 ScholiaQ127871467MaRDI QIDQ2072030

Samuel Craig Fletcher

Publication date: 31 January 2022

Published in: Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/17223/1/events.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

general relativityclosed timelike curvesfield ontologyparticle ontologyevent ontologyprocess ontology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Physics (00A79) General relativity (83Cxx)

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