1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910709519403321

Autore

Becker Donald A

Titolo

Measurements and standards for recycled oil / / Donald A. Becker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gaithersburg, MD : , : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, , 1977

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

NBS special publication ; ; 488

Altri autori (Persone)

BeckerDonald A

Soggetti

Petroleum waste - Recycling

Conference papers and proceedings.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

1977.

Contributed record: Metadata reviewed, not verified. Some fields updated by batch processes.

Title from PDF title page.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787284303321

Autore

Arntzenius Frank

Titolo

Space, time, and stuff / / Frank Arntzenius ; with a contribution by Cian Dorr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, England : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014

©2012

ISBN

0-19-162914-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Disciplina

111

Soggetti

Ontology

Space and time

Geometry in nature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Space, Time, and Stuff""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""1: It's just one damn thing after another""; ""1.1 Introduction""; ""1.2 The structure of time and space in Newtonian physics""; ""1.3 The structure of time and space in relativistic physics""; ""1.4 The idea that time has no structure""; ""1.5 Ridding time of structure in Newtonian particle physics""; ""1.6 Ridding time of structure in Special Relativity""; ""1.7 Ridding time of structure in General Relativity""; ""2: There goes the neighbourhood . . .""; ""2.1 Introduction""

""2.2 How separable is the geometric structure of spacetime?""""2.3 How separable is classical particle structure?""; ""2.4 Are velocities intrinsic to spacetime points?""; ""2.5 How separable are the properties of classical fields?""; ""2.6 Separability, dynamical locality, and relativity""; ""3: The world according to quantum mechanics""; ""3.1 Introduction""; ""3.2 An argument that the world is not separable according to quantum mechanics""; ""3.3 Configuration space realism""; ""3.4 Configuration space realism in Newtonian particle mechanics""

""3.5 Configuration space realism in non-relativistic quantum particle mechanics""""3.6 Relativistic quantum mechanics and narratibility failure""; ""3.7 Can one use dynamics to rescue narratability?""; ""3.8 There is no configuration spacetime""; ""3.9 Multi-time configuration



space wave-functions""; ""3.10 Indeterministic relativistic theories in general""; ""3.11 Amplitude realism""; ""3.12 Liberal amplitude realism""; ""3.13 Density-operator realism""; ""3.14 Heisenberg-operator realism""; ""3.15 Flash realism""; ""3.16 Tentative conclusions""; ""4: Pointlessness""

""4.1 Introduction""""4.2 The possibility of motion and determinism""; ""4.3 Cutting things in half""; ""4.4 Paradoxes of size""; ""4.5 Quantum mechanics and points""; ""4.6 Contact between objects""; ""4.7 The topological approach to pointless spaces""; ""4.8 Objects in a pointless topology""; ""4.9 Fields in a pointless topology""; ""4.10 Problems for the topological approach to gunk""; ""4.11 Measure theoretic gunk""; ""4.12 Problems for measure theoretic gunk""; ""4.13 Conclusions""; ""5: Do space and time exist?""; ""5.1 Introduction""; ""5.2 Leibniz's shifts

an argument against the existence of space""""5.3 Newton's buckets;  an argument for the existence of space""; ""5.4 Leibnizean relationism and Newtonian particle theories""; ""5.5 Relationism and Newtonian field theories""; ""5.6 Relationism about time in Newtonian physics""; ""5.7 Piggy-back relationism""; ""5.8 Rich relationism and Newtonian physics""; ""5.9 Relationism and Special Relativity""; ""5.10 The hole argument""; ""5.11 General Relativity and relationism""; ""5.12 Substantivalism""; ""5.13 Supersubstantivalism""; ""6: Gauge theories and fibre-bundle spaces""

""6.1 Introduction""