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Philosophy of Sciences

2014 year, number 3

The Implementation of Unification Ideas in the Development of General Relativity

E. A. Bezlepkin, A. Y. Storozhuk
Institute of philosophy and law SB RAS, Novosibirsk
Keywords: the unification in physics, general relativity

Abstract

We may consider the process of unification which takes place in the development of the theory in the aspect of different generality levels. The initial level is that of concepts; basic concepts of space, time and matter are analyzed and transformed at this level. Then, at the level of presumptions there form main principles making up a “hard core” of the program. At the functional level, the theory formalizes. The development of the theory results in a large-scale unification of approaches, universalization of principles, and generalization of concepts.