Einstein, relativity, and absolute simultaneity [
Presenting a collection of original essays from a team of international philosophers and physicists, this volume reassesses the contemporary paradigm of the relativistic concept of time. There is no other book like this currently available.
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London ; New York :
Routledge ,
c2008
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| Online Access: | NetLibrary |
Table of Contents:
- 1. The metaphysics of special relativity: three views
- 2. Finding ''real'' time in quantum mechanics
- 3. A radical rethinking of quantum gravity: rejecting Einstein's relativity and unifying Bohmian quantum mechanics with a Bell-neo-Lorentzian absolute time, space and gravity
- 4. Hidden variables and the large-scale structure of space-time
- 5. Non-local correlations in quantum theory: how the trick might be done
- 6. The zero acceleration discontinuity and absolute simultaneity
- 7. Global Positioning System and the twins' paradox
- 8. A defense of absolute simultaneity
- 9. Cosmic simultaneity
- 10. Presentism, eternalism and relativity physics
- 11. The Special Theory and absolute simultaneity