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The concept of order I. The space-time structure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

E. W. Bastin
Affiliation:
King's CollegeCambridge
C. W. Kilmister
Affiliation:
King's CollegeLondon

Abstract

Even if ideas of measurement did not exist, a great deal of the simple mechanical and electromagnetic structure of the physical world could be understood. To see how this can be so, the orthodox ideas of the relationship of mathematics to physics are inadequate. In this paper a development of this fundamental non-metrical physics is made to depend on a different view of this relationship.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1954

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