Einstein’s Curved Space-Time and Scientific Revolution

• Autores: Kyoung Eun Yang
• Localización: Acta Philosophica: rivista internazionale di filosofia, ISSN 1121-2179, Vol. 28, Nº. 1, 2019, págs. 81-96
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Einstein’s Curved Space-Time and Scientific Revolution: Both physicists and philosophers cite the theory-shift from flat to curved space-time formalism as revolutionary feature within NewtonEinstein theory-change. This essay argues against this that this conceptual change was ‘evolutionary’ and exhibits a high degree of continuity. The basic strategy of this essay is to employ the dynamical perspective of space-time developed by Harvey Brown, and Robert DiSalle, which selects the relationships between events – one specified by the laws of inertia at issue – as the essential elements within these two physical theoretical frameworks. This view turns our attention away from the structure of space-time to the dynamical laws, and also clarifies to what extent the theory-change is evolutionary.