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Scientific Polarization
Cailin O'Connor, James Owen Weatherall
Contemporary societies are often "polarized", in the sense that sub-groups within these societies hold stably opposing beliefs, even when there is a fact of the matter. Extant mode…
Would Two Dimensions be World Enough for Spacetime?
Samuel C. Fletcher, John Byron Manchak, Mike D. Schneider +1
We consider various curious features of general relativity, and relativistic field theory, in two spacetime dimensions. In particular, we discuss: the vanishing of the Einstein ten…
Classical Spacetime Structure
James Owen Weatherall
I discuss several issues related to "classical" spacetime structure. I review Galilean, Newtonian, and Leibnizian spacetimes, and briefly describe more recent developments. The tar…
A Brief Comment on Maxwell(/Newton)[-Huygens] Spacetime
James Owen Weatherall
I provide an alternative characterization of a "standard of rotation" in the context of classical spacetime structure that does not refer to any covariant derivative operator.
The Motion of Small Bodies in Space-time
Robert Geroch, James Owen Weatherall
We consider the motion of small bodies in general relativity. The key result captures a sense in which such bodies follow timelike geodesics (or, in the case of charged bodies, Lor…
On Gravitational Energy in Newtonian Theories
Neil Dewar, James Owen Weatherall
There are well-known problems associated with the idea of (local) gravitational energy in general relativity. We offer a new perspective on those problems by comparison with Newton…