Proving the principle: taking geodesic dynamics too seriously in Einstein's theory

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2011.12.002zbMath1281.83012OpenAlexW2029832427MaRDI QIDQ2436221

Michael Tamir

Publication date: 21 February 2014

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/9158/1/Tamir_-_Proving_the_Principle.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

Einsteinsingularityuniversalitygeneral relativitydistribution theorygeodesic principlescientific representation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesic flows in symplectic geometry and contact geometry (53D25) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40) Physics (00A79)

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