Chapitre D'ouvrage Année : 2006

The disappearance of Space and Time

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I argue that lesson of general relativity is that at our present state of knowledge the best way for making sense of the world is to discard the notions of space and time. Newtonian space and time can be reinterpreted as aspects of the gravitational field, which is only one among the various dynamical physical fields making up the world. Physical fields do not need to inhabit spacetime in order to exist. The resulting understanding of space is to some extent a return to the Aristotelian-Cartesian relational tradition; while the resulting interpretation of temporality, appears to have strong elements of novelty. I consider the viability of a foundation of our understanding of the world in which space and time play no role.

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hal-00477077 , version 1 (28-02-2025)

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Carlo Rovelli. The disappearance of Space and Time. The Ontology of Spacetime, 1, Elsevier, pp.25-36, 2006, Philosophy and Foundations of Physics, ⟨10.1016/S1871-1774(06)01002-3⟩. ⟨hal-00477077⟩
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