Einstein, Relativity and Absolute Simultaneity

ISBN-13: 9780415591669 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 312 str.

Opis

This text features an anthology of original essays by an international team of leading philosophers and physicists who, on the centenary of Albert Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, come together in this volume to reassess the contemporary paradigm of the relativistic concept of time.

Spis treści

Preface  Part 1: Metaphysics and Absolute Simultaneity  The Metaphysics of Special Relativity: Three Views  Finding ‘Real’ Time in Quantum Mechanics  Presentism, Eternalism and Relativity Physics  A Defense of Absolute Simultaneity  Part 2: Physics and Absolute Simultaneity  Hidden Variables and the Large-Scale Structure of Spacetime  Non-Local Correlations in Quantum Theory: How the Trick Might Be Done  The Zero Acceleration Discontinuity and Absolute Simultaneity  GPS & the Twins’ Paradox  Cosmic Simultaneity  Special Theory and Absolute Simultaneity

O autorze

William Craig Lane, Quentin Smith