NDLI: Formal statement of the special principle of relativity

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Author	Gömöri, Márton Szabó, László E.
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	While there is a longstanding discussion about the interpretation of the extended, general principle of relativity, there seems to be a consensus that the special principle of relativity is absolutely clear and unproblematic. However, a closer look at the literature on relativistic physics reveals a more confusing picture. There is a huge variety of, sometimes metaphoric, formulations of the relativity principle, and there are different, sometimes controversial, views on its actual content. The aim of this paper is to develop a precise language in order to provide a precise formulation of the principle. In view of the fact that the special relativity principle is considered as a universal meta-law, which must be valid for all physical laws in all situations, we try to keep the formalism as general as possible. The benefit of the formal reconstruction is that it makes explicit all the necessary conceptual components of the principle; it brings out many subtle details and the related conceptual problems.
Starting Page	2053
Ending Page	2076
Page Count	24
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00397857
Journal	Synthese
Volume Number	192
Issue Number	7
e-ISSN	15730964
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2013-12-04
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	The special relativity principle Operationalism Covariance Philosophy of Science Epistemology Logic Philosophy of Language Metaphysics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy Social Sciences

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