Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics: Festschrift in Honor of John Stachel

Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics......Page 3
Copyright ISBN 1402012845......Page 4
Table of Contents......Page 6
Stachel - Autobiographical Reflections......Page 9
Ashtekar; Renn; Shimony - Introduction......Page 13
I - Historical and Philosophical Roots of Relativity......Page 21
Eisenstaedt - The Prehistory of Relativity......Page 22
Melcher - Interpretations and Equations of the Michelson Experiment......Page 32
Jannsen - The Trouton Experiment, E = mc2, and a Slice of Minkowski Space-Time......Page 45
Norton - The N-Stein Family......Page 73
Renn; Sauer - Eclipses of the Stars......Page 86
Goldstein; Ritter - The Varieties of Unity Sounding Unified Theories 1920–1930......Page 110
Saunders - Indiscernibles, General Covariance, and Other Symmetries......Page 167
Malament - On Relative Orbital Rotation in Relativity Theory......Page 190
II - Foundational Issues in Relativity and their Advancement......Page 206
Ellis - The unique nature of cosmology......Page 207
Smolin - Time, Structure and Evolution in Cosmology......Page 235
Anderson - Timekeeping in an Expanding Universe......Page 289
Ehlers; Frittelli; Newman - Gravitational Lensing from a Space-Time Perspective......Page 295
Vishveshwara - Rigidly Rotating Disk Revisited......Page 319
D\'Inverno - DSS 2 +2......Page 331
Robinson - Geometry, Null Hypersurfaces and New Variables......Page 362
Plebański; Przanowski - On Vacuum Twisting Type-N Again......Page 374
Goldberg - Quasi-Local Energy......Page 387
Gleiser; Letelier - Space-Time Defects......Page 395
Deser - Dimensionally Challenged Gravities......Page 408
Tulczyjew - A Note on Holonomic Constraints......Page 413
Wesley; Wheeler - Towards an Action-at-a-Distance Concept of Spacetime......Page 430
III - Foundational Issues in Quantum Physics and their Advancement......Page 446
Beller - Inevitability, Inseparability and Gedanken Measurement......Page 447
Paty - The Concept of Quantum State.. New Views on old Phenomena in Ashtekar et al. 2003......Page 459
Finkelstein - Elementary Processes in Ashtekar et al. 2003......Page 487
Shimony; Stein - On Quantum Non-Locality, Special Relativity, And Counterfactual Reasoning......Page 506
Jaeger; Sarkar - Coherence, Entanglement, and Reductionist Explanation In Quantum Physics......Page 529
IV - Science, History, and the Challenges of Progress......Page 549
Janis - Physics and Science Fiction......Page 550
Tisza - Can We Learn from History? Do We Want To?......Page 560
Gavroglu; Patiniotis - Patterns of Appropriation in the Greek Intellectual Life of the 18th Century......Page 574
Lefèvre - Darwin, Marx, and Warranted Progress......Page 597
Schweber - Albert Einstein and the Founding of Brandeis University......Page 618
Appendix - John Stachel\'s Publications......Page 644