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• Vesselin Petkov (2023), As requested by some colleagues and friends here is a summary of the 7 May 2023 interview on gravitation

• Vesselin Petkov (2023), "Nature of Gravitation" - an interview on the nature of gravitation with an explanation of why gravity is nothing more than a manifestation of the non-Euclidean geometry (= curvature) of spacetime and is not a force, 7 May 2023

• Vesselin Petkov (2022), "Does Time Exist?" - an interview on the nature of spacetime (with an emphasis that the experiments, which confirmed the kinematic relativistic effects, are impossible in a three-dimensional world), how the consciousness appears to create the illusion that time flows and free will, 7 November 2022

• 12-15 September 2022, Sixth International Conference on the Nature and Ontology of Spacetime, Albena (famous resort near) Varna, Bulgaria

• Publications by members of the Minkowski Institute on Minkowski-Institute-research-related subjects
• Second Hermann Minkowski Meeting on the Foundations of Spacetime Physics - 13-16 May 2019, Hotel "Laguna Garden", Albena (near) Varna, Bulgaria
• The Minkowski Institute will be soon launching the Minkowski Institute Magazine as one of the main means to pursue three of the Institute's goals:
  • To inspire young people to pursue studies and careers in science.
  • To provide continual science education for the general public in order that scientific culture becomes an inseparable element of the common culture of every individual.
  • To promote science and science education as the best way to advance our civilization.

• To mark the 110th anniversary of Hermann Minkowski's groundbreaking lecture "Space and Time" the main theme of the fifth spacetime conference, organized by the Minkowski Institute, will be specifically on the nature of spacetime:

  Fifth International Conference on the Nature and Ontology of Spacetime

• The Minkowski Institute launches a new initiative:

  Identifying Foundational Knowledge

• In May 2017, to mark the 110th anniversary of Hermann Minkowski's two lectures on relativity (given in 1907), which presented the novel ideas and the mathematical formalism of the four-dimensional physics of spacetime (summarized in Minkowski's famous lecture Space and Time a year later), the Minkowski Institute initiates a biennial series of meetings bringing together experts (mostly physicists and mathematicians) on the foundations of spacetime physics (and beginners in the field as well):

  Hermann Minkowski Meetings on the Foundations of Spacetime Physics

• The Spacetime Conferences resume in 2016 - now organized by the Minkowski Institute: Fourth International Conference on the Nature and Ontology of Spacetime
• At present the research at the Minkowski Institute is on its first and major research project as outlined in section Research and the Institute continues to invite researchers who are interested in working on this project and its implications.