Geometry and Motion in General Relativity

A classic problem in general relativity, long studied by both physicists and philosophers of physics, concerns whether the geodesic principle may be derived from other principles of the theory, or must be posited independently. In a recent paper [Geroch &

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Claus Beisbart Tilman Sauer Christian Wüthrich Editors

Thinking About Space and Time 100 Years of Applying and Interpreting General Relativity

Einstein Studies Series Editors Don Howard, University of Notre Dame, IN, USA Diana L. Kormos-Buchwald, California Institute of Technology, CA, USA Editorial Advisory Board Giovanni Amelino-Camelia, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Italy Alisa Bokulich, Boston University, MA, USA Alessandra Buonanno, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Germany Danian Hu, City College of New York, NY, USA Michel Janssen, Tate Laboratory of Physics, MN, USA Dennis Lehmkuhl, California Institute of Technology, CA, USA John Norton, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA Jürgen Renn, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany Carlo Rovelli, Centre de Physique Theorique de Luminy, France Sahotra Sarkar, University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA Tilman Sauer, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany Rainer Weiss, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA

Volume 15 Volume 1:

Einstein and the History of General Relativity Don Howard and John Stachel, editors

Volume 2:

Conceptual Problems of Quantum Gravity Abhay Ashtekar and John Stachel, editors

Volume 3:

Studies in the History of General Relativity Jean Eisenstaedt and A.J. Kox, editors

Volume 4:

Recent Advances in General Relativity Allen I. Janis and John R. Porter, editors

Volume 5:

The Attraction of Gravitation: New Studies in the History of General Relativity John Earman, Michel Janssen, and John D. Norton, editors

Volume 6:

Mach’s Principle: From Newton’s Bucket to Quantum Gravity Julian B. Barbour and Herbert Pfister, editors

Volume 7:

The Expanding Worlds of General Relativity Hubert Goenner, Jürgen Renn, Jim Ritter, and Tilman Sauer, editors

Volume 8:

Einstein: The Formative Years, 1879–1909 Don Howard and John Stachel, editors

Volume 9:

Einstein from ‘B’ to ‘Z’ John Stachel

Volume 10:

Einstein Studies in Russia Yuri Balashov and Vladimir Vizgin, editors

Volume 11:

The Universe of General Relativity A.J. Kox and Jean Eisenstaedt, editors

Volume 12:

Einstein and the Changing Worldviews of Physics Christoph Lehner, Jürgen Renn, and Matthias Schemmel, editors

Volume 13:

Towards a Theory of Spacetime Theories Dennis Lehmkuhl, Gregor Schiemann, and Erhard Scholz, editors

Volume 14:

Beyond Einstein David E. Rowe, Tilman Sauer, and Scott A. Walter, editors

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Thinking About Space and Time Claus Beisbart, Tilman Sauer, and Christian Wüthrich, editors

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Claus Beisbart • Tilman Sauer • Christian W¨uthrich Editors

Thinking About Space and Time 100 Years of Applying and Interpreting General Relativity

Editors Claus Beisbart Institute of Philosophy University of Bern Bern, Switzerland

Tilman Sauer Institute of Mathematics Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz Mainz, Germany

Christian W¨uthrich Department of Philosophy University of Geneva Gen`eve, Switzerland

ISSN 2381-5833 ISSN 2381-5841 (electronic) Einstei