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Why is the World four-dimensional? Hermann Weyl's 1955 argument and the topology of causation

Journal of Physics: Conference Series, ISSN: 1742-6596, Vol: 880, Issue: 1
2017
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This paper approaches the question of space dimensionality by discussing a neglected argument proposed by Hermann Weyl in 1955. In Why is the World Four-Dimensional? (1955), Weyl offered a different argument from the one generally attributed to him and presented in Raum-Zeit-Materie. In the first sections of the paper, this new argument and its features are spelled-out, and in the last section, I shall develop some useful remarks on the concept of topology of causation that can still inform our reflection on the dimensionality of the world.

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