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Minkowski spacetime is generally regarded as the appropriate arena within which to formulate those laws of physics that do not refer specifically to gravitational phenomena. We would like to spend a moment here at the outset briefly examining some of the circumstances which give rise to this belief.
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Naber, G.L. (2012). Introduction. In: The Geometry of Minkowski Spacetime. Applied Mathematical Sciences, vol 92. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7838-7_0
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