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Asher Yahalom (ed.), Hermann Minkowski and the Reality of Spacetime (Minkowski Institute Press). ISBN 978-1-989970-15-7 (ebook) $7 ISBN 978-1-989970-14-0 (softcover) $18 ISBN 978-1-998902-46-0 (hardcover) $27 Publication date - tba Buy the ebook (PDF with hyperlinks)

Call for papers:

This volume will contain papers mostly on whether or not Minkowski's arguments in his 1908 world-view-changing lecture "Space and Time" (based on the experimental evidence at that time) unambiguously prove that spacetime is real (i.e., that the concept of "spacetime" represents a real four-dimensional world). Contributions closely related to the main theme or to the general issue of the nature of spacetime are also welcome.

The reason for the publication of this volume is the fact that since Minkowski's lecture, unlike the adoption of the developed by him four-dimensional (spacetime) formalism, Minkowski's arguments for the reality of spacetime have been ignored. Even worse - some physicists (unfortunately even relativists) claim that Minkowski's four-dimensional formalism is "just a description" and / or that the question of the reality of spacetime belongs to philosophy. But the majority of relativists appear to understand well that the dimensionality of the (macroscopic) world is not "just a description," because the dimensionality of the world is arguably as fundamental as its very existence, and it is physics that determines it, not philosophy.

It is recommended that submitted papers address explicitly Minkowski's arguments. Why? See abstract.

If interested contact mip@minkowskiinstitute.com

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