RELATIONAL SPACE AND TIME: METAPHYSICAL FOUNDATIONS AND POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIMENTS

Abstract

Questions of a general philosophical, metaphysical nature about the properties of space and time inevitably intersect with their physical interpretation, including in hypothetical experiments. In this paper, relational ideas about the limiting philosophical categories are studied, which make it possible to concretize the ways of specifying space and time. This approach is compared with Leibniz’s concept. The development of relational theoretical propositions leads to predictions of new effects and a discussion of their possible experimental verifications. It is concluded that the foundations and future limits of the theory can, in a certain sense, be reconciled.