Can we know the global structure of spacetime?

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2008.07.004zbMath1228.83021OpenAlexW2109562630MaRDI QIDQ652791

John Byron Manchak

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/4162/1/manchak.global.struct.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

cosmologygeneral relativityunderdeterminationepistemologyobservational indistinguishability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05)

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Cites Work

• Topology, cosmology and convention
• The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time
• General Relativity
• The underdetermination of total theories

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