Chapter 4: Minkowski Space-Time: A Glorious Non-Entity

Philosophy and Foundations of Physics

Volumn 1, Issue C, 2006, Pages 67-89

  Brown, Harvey R ^a   Pooley, Oliver ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b ORIEL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 77956688607     PISSN: 18711774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1871-1774(06)01004-7     Document Type: Review

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