Drawing the line between kinematics and dynamics in special relativity
From MaRDI portal
Publication:652790
DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2008.06.004zbMath1228.83010OpenAlexW2147449898MaRDI QIDQ652790
Publication date: 17 December 2011
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/3895/1/kin-vs-dyn.pdf
kinematicsMinkowski space-timeLorentz invarianceinference to the best explanationclassical electron modelsTrouton-Noble experiment
Special relativity (83A05) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of relativity and gravitational theory (83-03)
Related Items
Two miracles of general relativity, Minkowski spacetime and Lorentz invariance: the cart and the horse or two sides of a single coin?, Heuristics versus norms: on the relativistic responses to the Kaufmann experiments, The limitations of inertial frame spacetime functionalism, Against `functional gravitational energy': a critical note on functionalism, selective realism, and geometric objects and gravitational energy, Principle or constructive relativity, ‘Two Dogmas’ Redux, Length matters: the Einstein-Swann correspondence and the constructive approach to the special theory of relativity, 'But one must not legalize the mentioned sin': phenomenological vs. dynamical treatments of rods and clocks in Einstein's thought, Fantastic beasts and where (not) to find them: local gravitational energy and energy conservation in general relativity, Explanation, analyticity and constitutive principles in spacetime theories, Einstein's reinterpretation of the Fizeau experiment: how it turned out to be crucial for special relativity, Why not a sound postulate?, Physical relativity from a functionalist perspective, Conservation, inertia, and spacetime geometry, How did Lorentz find his theorem of corresponding states?, On Explaining Non-dynamically the Quantum Correlations Via Quantum Information Theory: What It Takes, On the empirical equivalence between special relativity and Lorentz's ether theory, Equivariant mappings and invariant sets on Minkowski space
Cites Work
- The turning point for Einstein's annus mirabilis
- Laws and meta-laws of nature: conservation laws and symmetries
- Length matters: the Einstein-Swann correspondence and the constructive approach to the special theory of relativity
- Electron spin or ``classically non-describable two-valuedness
- Pascual Jordan's resolution of the conundrum of the wave-particle duality of light
- Einstein, Nordström and the early demise of scalar, Lorentz-covariant theories of gravitation
- Reconsidering a scientific revolution: the case of Einstein versus Lorentz
- Mechanisms, principles, and Lorentz's cautious realism
- On the verge of \textit{Umdeutung} in Minnesota: Van Vleck and the correspondence principle. I.
- Self-Energy and Stability of the Classical Electron
- COIStories: Explanation and Evidence in the History of Science
- Unnamed Item
- Unnamed Item
- Unnamed Item
- Unnamed Item
