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V. Petkov
RELATIVITY
AND THE NATURE
OF SPACETIME
With 58 Figures
123
Dr. Vesselin Petkov
Concordia University
Liberal Arts College
de Maisonneuve Blvd. West 1455
Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8, Canada
E-mail: vpetkov@alcor.concordia.ca
Series Editors:
Prof. Daniela Dragoman
University of Bucharest, Physics Faculty, Solid State Chair, PO Box MG-11,
76900 Bucharest, Romania email: danieladragoman@yahoo.com
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National Research and Development Institute in Microtechnology, PO Box 38-160,
023573 Bucharest, Romania email: mircead@imt.ro
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Bar-Ilan University, Unit of Interdisciplinary Studies,
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Department of Physics, Trinity College,
Hartford, CT 06106, USA email: mark.silverman@trincoll.edu
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University of Alberta, Department of Physics, Edmonton, AB,
T6G 2J1, Canada email: jtus@phys.ualberta.ca
Prof.H.DieterZeh
University of Heidelberg, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Philosophenweg 19,
69120 Heidelberg, Germany email: zeh@urz.uni-heidelberg.de
Cover figure: Detail from ‘Venus Beauty and Anisotropic Geometric Diffusion’ by U. Clarenz, U. Diewald, and
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ISSN 1612-3018
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