Inertia and Gravitation: From Aristotle's Natural Motion to Geodesic Worldlines in Curved Spacetime
About this ebook
- Are inertial forces fictitious or real?
- Does Minkowski's four-dimensional formulation of special relativity provide an insight into the origin of inertia?
- Does mass increase relativistically?
- Why is the inertial mass equivalent to the gravitational mass?
- Are gravitational phenomena caused by gravitational interaction according to general relativity?
- Is there gravitational energy?
- Do gravitational waves carry gravitational energy?
- Can gravity be quantized?
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About the author
Vesselin Petkov received a graduate degree in physics from Sofia University, a doctorate in philosophy from the Institute for Philosophical Research of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and a doctorate in physics from Concordia University in Montreal. He taught at Sofia University and Concordia University, and also had a stint at the Physics Department of the Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria, before coming to Montreal in 1990.
He is one of the founding members of the Institute for Foundational Studies "Hermann Minkowski" (http://www.minkowskiinstitute.org/) whose most distinct feature is the employment of a research strategy based on the successful methods behind the greatest discoveries in physics. In this sense the Minkowski Institute is without a counterpart in the world.
Website: http://spacetimecentre.org/vpetkov/
