Infinities as natural places
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⚛️ physics.hist-ph
gr-qc
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naturalnotiongeneralinfinitiesphysicsplaceplacesrelativity
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It is shown that a notion of natural place is possible within modern physics. For Aristotle, the elements$-$the primary components of the world$-$follow to their natural places in the absence of forces. On the other hand, in general relativity, the so-called Carter-Penrose diagrams offer a notion of end for objects along the geodesics. Then, the notion of natural place in Aristotelian physics has an analog in the notion of conformal infinities in general relativity.
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