Fokkers ‘greep in de verte’. Nederlandse fysica en filosofie in het interbellum

Fokker's physical worldpicture: Dutch physics and philosophy in the interwar period During the early twenties the Dutch physicist Adriaan Daniël Fokker, erstwhile pupil of Lorentz and collaborator of Einstein, disseminated a view of nature that was firmly rooted in Einstein's theory of relativity. Fokker, however, vested the theory with a highly personal interpretation by giving ontological primacy to the four-dimensional space-time, and its basic elements, events. He consequentially downplayed the meaningfulness of matter as well as space and time taken separately. By highlighting the inextri... Mehr ...