Space, Time, and Spacetime - Physical and Philosophical Implications of Minkowski's Unification of Space and Time

Dedicated to the centennial anniversary of Minkowski's discovery of spacetime, this volume contains papers, most presented at the Third International Conference on the Nature and Ontology of Spacetime, that address some of the deepest questions in physics.



Vesselin Petkov received a graduate degree in physics from Sofia University, a doctorate in philosophy from the Institute for Philosophical Research of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and a doctorate in physics from Concordia University. He taught at Sofia University and is currently teaching at Concordia University. He wrote the book 'Relativity and the Nature of Spacetime' (Springer 2005) and edited the books 'Relativity and the Dimensionality of the World' (Springer 2007), and 'Minkowski Spacetime: A Hundred Years Later' (Springer, forthcoming). He is a member of the Governing Board of the International Society for the Advanced Study of Spacetime