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闵可夫斯基的“空间与时代”讲座缺少什么

What is missing from Minkowski's "Raum und Zeit" lecture

Thibault Damour

摘要:

这篇文章试图突出闵可夫斯基的“空间与时代”讲座的重要性,以“消极”的方式,其中{ \it消极}是在倒车灯和阴影的摄影意义。事实上,我们专注于闵可夫斯基文本的“阴影”,即缺失或误解的东西。特别是,我们集中在两个问题:(i)为什么庞加莱的开创性贡献四维几何没有引用闵可夫斯基(虽然他大量引用他们几个月前科隆讲座)?闵可夫斯基是否完全掌握了时空中“时间”的物理(和存在)意义?我们认为,这种"否定“的方法(以及庞加莱和闵可夫斯基对物理学态度的对比)使人们能够更好地理解闵可夫斯基在科隆演讲中迈出的{ \it革命性}一步的大胆性。

英文摘要:

This contribution tries to highlight the importance of Minkowski's ``Raum und Zeit'' lecture in a ``negative'' way, where {\it negative} is taken in the photographic sense of reversing lights and shades. Indeed, we focus on the ``shades'' of Minkowski's text, i.e. what is missing, or misunderstood. In particular, we focus on two issues: (i) why are Poincaré's pioneering contributions to four-dimensional geometry not quoted by Minkowski (while he abundantly quoted them a few months before the Cologne lecture)?, and (ii) did Minkowski fully grasp the physical (and existential) meaning of ``time'' within spacetime? We think that this ``negative'' approach (and the contrast between Poincaré's and Minkowski's attitudes towards physics) allows one to better grasp the boldness of the {\it revolutionary} step taken by Minkowski in his Cologne lecture.

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