A Golden Age of General Relativity? Some remarks on the history of general relativity

狄拉克对广义相对论的贡献

Some Remarks on Dirac's Contributions to General Relativity

我提供了一个非常简短的草图的一些狄拉克的利益和工作的引力，特别是他的哈密顿制定爱因斯坦的理论和它的关系，他早期的研究。

时空奇点与不完整性：知识论与本体论的评论

Spacetime singularities and incompleteness: epistemic and ontological remarks

本文通过对比Penrose的奇点定理与哥德尔不完全性定理，探讨时空奇点在广义相对论中的本体论意义及知识论限制。

A Brief Remark on Energy Conditions and the Geroch-Jang Theorem

The status of the geodesic principle in General Relativity has been a topic of some interest in the recent literature on the foundations of spacetime theories. Part of this discussion has focused on the role that a certain energy condition plays in the proof of a theorem due to Bob Geroch and Pong-Soo Jang ["Motion of a Body in General Relativity." Journal of Mathematical Physics 16(1), (1975)] that can be taken to make precise the claim that the geodesic principle is a theorem, rather than a postulate, of General Relativity. In this brief note, I show, by explicit counterexample, that not onl…

Editorial note to "Large number coincidences and the anthropic principle in cosmology"

This is an editorial note to accompany reprinting as a Golden Oldie in the Journal of General Relativity and Gravitation of the famous paper by Brandon Carter on the anthropic principle in cosmology \cite{Car74}. This paper was presented at IAU Symposium No. 63, entitled Confrontation of cosmological theories with observational data, in 1973.

Editorial note to "The beginning of the world from the point of view of quantum theory"

This is an editorial note to accompany reprinting as a Golden Oldie in the Journal of General Relativity and Gravitation of the famous note by Georges Lemaitre on the quantum birth of the universe, published in Nature in 1931. We explain why this short (457 words) article can be considered to be the true "Charter" of the modern Big Bang theory.

On the mathematics and metaphysics of the hole argument

We make some remarks on the mathematics and metaphysics of the hole argument, in response to a recent article in this journal by Weatherall ([2018]). Broadly speaking, we defend the mainstream philosophical literature from the claim that correct usage of the mathematics of general relativity 'blocks' the argument.