Manchak, JB (2022) On the (In?)Stability of Spacetime Inextendibility. In: UNSPECIFIED.
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Leibnizian metaphysics underpins the near universally held view that spacetime must be inextendible – that it must be “as large as it can be” in a sense. But here we demonstrate a surprising fact within the context of general relativity: the property of inextendibility turns out to be unstable when attention is restricted to certain collections of “physically reasonable” spacetimes.
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| Keywords: | Leibniz, Spacetime, Maximality, Inextendibility, Stability | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory | ||||||
| Depositing User: | John Byron Manchak | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 15 Oct 2022 03:33 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 15 Oct 2022 03:33 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 21270 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory | ||||||
| Date: | October 2022 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/21270 |
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