Inertia and Gravitation The Fundamental Nature and Structure of Spac

This book focuses on the phenomena of inertia and gravitation, one objective being to shed some new light on the basic laws of gravitational interaction and the fundamental nature and structures of spacetime. Chapter 1 is devoted to an extensive, partly n

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Herbert Pfister Markus King

Inertia and Gravitation

The Fundamental Nature and Structure of Space-Time

Lecture Notes in Physics

Volume 897

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Herbert Pfister • Markus King

Inertia and Gravitation The Fundamental Nature and Structure of Space-Time

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Herbert Pfister Institut für Theoretische Physik Universität Tübingen Tübingen Germany

Markus King Fakultät Engineering Hochschule Albstadt-Sigmaringen Albstadt Germany

ISSN 0075-8450 ISSN 1616-6361 (electronic) Lecture Notes in Physics ISBN 978-3-319-15035-2 ISBN 978-3-319-15036-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-15036-9 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015933272 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of t