MétaCan
Menu
Back to cohort
Record W3104344083

On the Reality of Minkowski Space

2013· article· en· W3104344083 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPhysics and Astronomy
TopicRelativity and Gravitational Theory
Canadian institutionsConcordia University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMinkowski spaceMinkowski's theoremTheoretical physicsSpacetimeSpace (punctuation)Curse of dimensionalityPhilosophy of sciencePhysicsEpistemologyClassical mechanicsMathematicsMathematical physicsPhilosophyQuantum mechanics
DOInot available

Abstract

fetched live from OpenAlex

Should physicists deal with the question of the reality of Minkowski space (or any relativistic spacetime)? It is argued that they should since this is a question about the dimensionality of the world at the macroscopic level and it is physics that should answer it. Almost a hundred years have passed since 1908 when Hermann Minkowski gave a fourdimensional formulation of special relativity according to which space and time are united into an inseparable four-dimensional entity – now called Minkowski space or simply spacetime – and macroscopic bodies are represented by four-dimensional worldtubes. But so far physicists have not addressed the question of the reality of these worldtubes and spacetime itself since they appear to assume that spacetime and the worldtubes of physical bodies do not have counterparts in the external world. The reason for such an assumption is the fact that special relativity can be equally formulated in a three-dimensional and a four-dimensional language. However, while the two representations of relativity are equivalent in a sense that they correctly describe the relativistic effects, they are diametrically different in terms of the dimensionality

Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.618
Threshold uncertainty score0.997

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.015
GPT teacher head0.247
Teacher spread0.232 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Quick stats

Citations17
Published2013
Admission routes1
Has abstractyes

Explore more

Same topicRelativity and Gravitational TheoryFrench-language works237,207