Minkowski space-time and thermodynamics
pp. 239-256
in: Vesselin Petkov (ed), Space, time, and spacetime, Berlin, Springer, 2010Abstract
The paper discusses both geometric and axiomatic approaches to Minkowski space-time and argues that different inferences to the nature of space-time follow from them. Whilst the geometric approach leads to the traditional block universe view, the axiomatic approaches have as a philosophical consequence a dynamic view of space-time. Both approaches lead to opposite but equally consistent views of four-dimensional space-time. It is a case of underdetermination.
