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View SchemaOn the Reality of Minkowski Space
| Authors | Vesselin Petkov |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0610046 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0610046 |
| DOI | 10.1007/s10701-007-9178-9 |
| Journal | Foundations of Physics 37 (2007) 1499-1502 |
Abstract
Should physicists deal with the question of the reality of Minkowski space (or any relativistic spacetime)? It is argued that they should since this is a question about the dimensionality of the world at the macroscopic level and it is physics that should answer it.
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