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(2010) Space, time, and spacetime, Dordrecht, Springer.
The paper discusses both geometric and axiomatic approaches to Minkowski space-time and argues that different inferences to the nature of space-time follow from them. Whilst the geometric approach leads to the traditional block universe view, the axiomatic approaches have as a philosophical consequence a dynamic view of space-time. Both approaches lead to opposite but equally consistent views of four-dimensional space-time. It is a case of underdetermination.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13538-5_11
Full citation:
Weinert, F. (2010)., Minkowski space-time and thermodynamics, in V. Petkov (ed.), Space, time, and spacetime, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 239-256.
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