id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_ca7mwqzsbnatbaxldx7wowsbee O. Pooley Relationalism Rehabilitated? I: Classical Mechanics 2002 21 .pdf application/pdf 9923 684 57 is argued that it is a matter of whim whether one sees classical general relativity as vindicating Newton's absolute space or Descartes' relational ethers If the universe is infinite, one may adopt the perspective of NewtonCartan theory in which a unique set of local inertial frames for every point of spacetime is sequences corresponding to systems with zero angular momentum can be obtained as the solutions of a "Hamiltonian theory on the relative phase space, From the point of view of the relational theory, the non-rotation of the universe When introducing the idea of a Hamiltonian theory defined on the relative phase space, Belot notes that there are two One also needs to give a positive relational account of the metric of the relative configuration space and the Whereas standard Newtonian theory can be formulated as an action principle on QT , the relationist seeks ./cache/work_ca7mwqzsbnatbaxldx7wowsbee.pdf ./txt/work_ca7mwqzsbnatbaxldx7wowsbee.txt