Whitehead's Trilogy and the Curvature of Spacetime
General Physics
2007-05-23 v1 History and Philosophy of Physics
Abstract
My object in the present paper is to: (1) introduce physicists to the life and work of Whitehead; (2) outline the content of his book "The Principle of Relativity"; (3) present Whitehead's basic criticism of the General Theory of Relativity which, to my mind, has never been rebutted or properly appreciated, even by GTR specialists; (4) propose a significant relevant research problem; and (5) summarize some of the rather radical implications of the acceptance of Whitehead's observations, including that spacetime is not curved.
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@article{arxiv.0704.2223,
title = {Whitehead's Trilogy and the Curvature of Spacetime},
author = {A. John Coleman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0704.2223},
year = {2007}
}