Mario Bunge on Gravitational Waves and the Reality of Spacetime

ROMERO, GUSTAVO E.

FOUNDATIONS OF SCIENCE

SPRINGER

Año: 2017 p. 1 - 5

1233-1821

I discuss the recent claims made by Mario Bunge on the philosophical implications of the discovery of gravitational waves. I think that Bunge is right when he points out that the detection implies the materiality of spacetime, but I reject his identification of spacetime with the gravitational field. I show that Bunge?s analysis of the spacetime inside a hollow sphere is defective, but this in no way affects his main claim.