Tim Maudlin, “Philosophy of Physics: Space and Time” (Princeton UP, 2012)
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The Twins Paradox and the Philosophy of Physics
The book is self-consciously different from other books that introduce the philosophy of physics. You talk about your decision to focus directly on the geometry of Minkowski space time and only secondarily on the rent's transformations. Can you maybe let's look at this example for a moment? And I really thought, especially with special relativity, it was very simple geometrically without writing down coordinate systems or transformations between them.
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