The origin of the spacetime metric: Bell's `Lorentzian pedagogy' and its significance in general relativity
| dc.creator | Brown, Harvey R. | |
| dc.creator | Pooley, Oliver | |
| dc.date | 1999-08-17 | |
| dc.date | 1999-10-19 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T03:33:30Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T03:33:30Z | |
| dc.description | The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the `Lorentzian pedagogy' defended by J.S. Bell in his essay ``How to teach special relativity'', and to explore its consistency with Einstein's thinking from 1905 to 1952. Some remarks are also made in this context on Weyl's philosophy of relativity and his 1918 gauge theory. Finally, it is argued that the Lorentzian pedagogy - which stresses the important connection between kinematics and dynamics - clarifies the role of rods and clocks in general relativity. | |
| dc.description | To be published in ``Physics Meets Philosophy at the Planck Length'', C. Callender and N. Huggett (eds.), Cambridge University Press (1999). 22 pages, no figures, LaTeX, uses harvard.sty; 3 references added, typos corrected and minor changes to content | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9908048 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9908048 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/36592 | |
| dc.subject | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology | |
| dc.title | The origin of the spacetime metric: Bell's `Lorentzian pedagogy' and its significance in general relativity | |
| dc.type | text |