INVESTIGADORES
ROMERO Gustavo Esteban
artículos
Título:
The ontology of General Relativity
Autor/es:
ROMERO, G. E.
Revista:
GRAVITATION & COSMOLOGY
Editorial:
SPRINGER
Referencias:
Lugar: Berlin; Año: 2013
ISSN:
0202-2893
Resumen:
I discuss the ontological assumptions and implications of General Relativity. I maintain that General Relativity is a theory about gravitational fields, not about space-time. The latter is a more basic ontological category, that emerges from physical relations among all existents. I also argue that there are no physical singularities in space-time. Singular space-time models do not belong to the ontology of the world: they are not things but concepts, i.e. defective solutions of Einstein´s field equations. I briefly discuss the actual implication of the so-called singularity theorems in General Relativity and some problems related to ontological assumptions of Quantum Gravity.
