1st Edition
Einstein, Relativity and Absolute Simultaneity
Einstein, Relativity and Absolute Simultaneity is an anthology of original essays by an international team of leading philosophers and physicists who have come together to reassess the contemporary paradigm of the relativistic concept of time. A great deal has changed since 1905 when Einstein proposed his Special Theory of Relativity, and this book offers a fresh reassessment of Special Relativity’s relativistic concept of time in terms of epistemology, metaphysics, and physics.
Preface Part 1: Metaphysics and Absolute Simultaneity The Metaphysics of Special Relativity: Three Views William Lane Craig Finding ‘Real’ Time in Quantum Mechanics Craig Callender Presentism, Eternalism and Relativity Physics Thomas M. Crisp A Defense of Absolute Simultaneity Michael Tooley Part 2: Physics and Absolute Simultaneity Hidden Variables and the Large-Scale Structure of Spacetime Antony Valentini Non-Local Correlations in Quantum Theory: How the Trick Might Be Done Tim Maudlin The Zero Acceleration Discontinuity and Absolute Simultaneity Franco Selleri GPS & the Twins’ Paradox Tom van Flandern Cosmic Simultaneity Richard Swinburne Special Theory and Absolute Simultaneity John Lucas
Biography
William Craig Lane, Quentin Smith
