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Chapter V
General Theories of Space Time
This Chapter deals with a general brief survey of various views regarding space and time which have observed not only by philosophers, physicists but also the so-called common dassein (human).
However, before we discuss the Einstein's Space-time four- dimensional manifold in favour of the unification of space and time characteristic of the relativity theory; we shall begin with the origin of the Absolute Relational controversy.
Newton" on absolute space and time is making atleast four interrelated but distinct claims as follows:(i) Absolute Motion:Space and time are capable to support
a non-relational absolute motion. (ii) Immutabily:-The structures fixed and immutable (iii) Nonconventional:- The structures are intrinsic to space
and time. (iv) Substantivalism:- Structure inhere in a substratum of
space or space-points.
We note that Newton has used to terms 'time', 'space', ‘place',and ‘motion'not in their ordinary-language senses but are being given special technical meanings that are being explained as follows:
(i) Newton says that absolute time "flows equably he is not to be passed as saying that time flows and that it flows equally. A literal notion of flows would presuppose a substratum with respect to which the flow takes place. * Newton's Scholium on Absolute Space and Time reproduced as an
Appendix to this chapter.
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