Proceedings of XIII International Meeting. Moscow, 2 – 5 July 2007. – Moscow: BMSTU, 2007. - 429 p.
ISBN 5-7038-2762-0
This volume contains papers which accepted for inclusion in the programme of lectures of
meeting Physical Interpretation of Relativity Theory which is organized by the Bauman Moscow
State Technical University, School of Computing and Technology, University of Sunderland,
Liverpool University and British Society for Philosophy of Science. The meeting is dedicated to the 175th Anniversary of Department of Physics BMSTU.
The most important single objective of the meeting in Summer 2007 is including the
advantages of the various physical, astrophysical, geometrical and mathematical interpretations
of the formal structure of Relativity Theory; and to examine the philosophical and
epistemological questions associated with the various interpretations of the accepted
mathematical expression of the Relativity Principle and its development.
The conference is called to examine the various interpretations of the (mathematical) formal
structure of Relativity Theory, and the several kinds of physical and mathematical models which
accompany these interpretations.
The programme timetable, giving authors and titles of papers as presented and other details of
the Moscow Meeting Physical Interpretation of Relativity Theory are given on the web site
maintained by the Bauman Moscow State Technical University
http://fn.bmstu.ru/phys/nov/konf/pirt2007/pirt2007_en.html.
The meeting is intended to be of interest to physicists, mathematicians, engineers, philosophers
and historians of science, post-graduate students.
