Manchak, John Byron (2008) Can We Know the Global Structure of Spacetime? [Preprint]
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Abstract
Here, we briefly review the notion of observational indistinguishability within the context of classical general relativity. We settle a conjecture given by Malament (1977) concerning the subject and then strengthen the result considerably. The upshot is this: There seems to be a robust sense in which the global structure of every cosmological model is underdetermined.
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| Item Type: | Preprint | ||||||
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| Additional Information: | Forthcoming in Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics | ||||||
| Keywords: | Epistemology, Observational Indistinguishability, Underdetermination, General Relativity, Cosmology | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics | ||||||
| Depositing User: | JB Manchak | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 16 Aug 2008 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 07 Oct 2010 15:16 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 4162 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics | ||||||
| Date: | August 2008 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive-dev.library.pitt.edu/id/eprint/4162 |
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