2 papers
physics.hist-ph2026
Scale Invariance, Variety and Central Configurations
Maria I. R. Lourenço, Julian Barbour, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Scale invariance has received very little attention in physics. Nevertheless, it provides a natural conceptual foundation for a relational understanding of the universe, where abso…
gr-qc2026
The Emergence of Measured Geometry in Self-Gravitating Systems
Maria I. R. Lourenço, Julian Barbour, Francisco S. N. Lobo
This work investigates the geometrical properties of self-gravitating -body systems from the perspective established by Henri Poincaré and Albert Einstein concerning the operati…