[PhilPhys] Warsaw Spacetime Colloquium: Gordon Belot (22 October on Zoom)

[Antonio Vassallo]

(With apologies for cross-posting)

On Friday, 22 October, Gordon Belot (University of Michigan) will give a
talk titled “The Mach-Einstein Principle of 1917-1918” (abstract below).

The meeting will take place online on Zoom (17:00-19:00 CEST). If you have
not registered yet, you can do so here <https://forms.gle/qpb8vVjtrF4y2nZ76>
.

The Colloquium is organized by the Philosophy of Physics Group
<https://ans.pw.edu.pl/Nauka/Zespoly-badawcze/Philosophy-of-Physics-Group>
at the Faculty of Administration and Social Sciences, Warsaw University of
Technology. The program for the winter semester can be found here
<https://ans.pw.edu.pl/Nauka/Zespoly-badawcze/Philosophy-of-Physics-Group/Events/Warsaw-Spacetime-Colloquium-2021-2022-online>
.

You can address any inquiry to antonio.vassallo at pw.edu.pl.

ABSTRACT
In 1917 and 1918 Einstein was working on relativistic cosmology and on
promoting and explaining general relativity in correspondence.  During this
period, the thesis that the spacetime metric should be determined by the
distribution of matter played an important role in his thought. This talk
is concerned with interpreting this thesis and with investigating its
status in general relativity.
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