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Whitehead and the Measurement Problem of Cosmology

Paperback • 2006 • Norwegian Bokmål

Whitehead and the Measurement Problem of Cosmology

By Gary L. Herstein

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Einstein's General Theory of Relativity links the metrical structure of the cosmic order (or ""cosmology"") to the contingent distributions of matter and energy throughout the universe, one of the chief areas of investigation in astrophysics. However, presently we have neither devised nor discovered system of uniform relations whereby we can make our cosmological measurements intelligible. This is ""the measurement problem of cosmology."" Using both historical ideas (such as A.N. Whitehead's wor...Show more

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9783110327977

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Berlin : De Gruyter

Published year

2006

Language

Norwegian Bokmål

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Whitehead and the Measurement Problem of Cosmology

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Paperback

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