{"product_id":"symmetry-structure-and-spacetime-dean-rickles-9780444531162","title":"Symmetry, Structure, and Spacetime: Volume 3","description":"In this book Rickles considers several interpretative difficulties raised by gauge-type symmetries (those that correspond to no change in physical state). The ubiquity of such symmetries in modern physics renders them an urgent topic in philosophy of physics. Rickles focuses on spacetime physics, and in particular classical and quantum general relativity. Here the problems posed are at their most pathological, involving the apparent disappearance of spacetime! Rickles argues that both traditional ontological positions should be replaced by a structuralist account according to which relational structure is what the physics is about.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dean Rickles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0444531165\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780444531162\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Elsevier Science\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/12\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 242\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.33lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.46h x 6.75w x 0.63d","brand":"Dean Rickles","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47419047870719,"sku":"9780444531162","price":145.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_33a09b97-5f89-483c-bb59-88977163e09f.jpg?v=1761509144","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/symmetry-structure-and-spacetime-dean-rickles-9780444531162","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}