... like mutually time-like related things are present simpliciter exclusively disjunctively, and each one of them gets to be present simpliciter, but in a successive way). presentness temporal passage special relativity Minkowski space-time simultaneity tense A-facts...

...Dylan N. Manson Albert Einstein Special Relativity Berit Brogaard Kristian Marlow Einstein (1905) established that the concept of simultaneity is not absolute: it is always relative to a frame of reference, and no inertial frame of reference is privileged over any other. Motivated by defending...

... Godfrey-Smith W Special relativity and the present Philosophical Studies 1979 36 233 44 Hinchliff M Tomberlin J The puzzle of change Philosophical Perspectives 1996 vol. 10 Cambridge, MA Blackwell 119 36 Hinchliff M A defense of presentism in a relativistic...

... Price H Quine W V Russell B special relativity token reflexive terms Aristotle Prior α N time conical order explanation Malament D Robb α α Sklar L temporal experience Walker R C S Hawking S W Minkowski spacetime Weyl H ‘arrow of time’ Denbigh K G entropy Gardner M Nerlich G...

...This chapter devotes equal attention to special relativity and general relativity. It first describes the history of the analysis of distant simultaneity, up to and including Einstein's procedure in his revolutionary 1905 paper which introduced special relativity. In particular, the discussion...

... the fundamental concepts of space and time and experience. In creating special relativity, David Hume's empiricism and Poincaré's conventionalism had been helpful because they encouraged Einstein to ascribe new notions of space and time to coordinates that in Hendrik Lorentz's electrodynamics had no direct...

... a slightly non-standard (but insightful) approach to special relativity, using the ‘k-calculus’ approach of Bondi. The chapter begins by discussing relativity in the Newtonian framework. It then goes on to introduce the two key postulates of special relativity, namely, the equivalence of all...

... A on special relativity is designed to provide an introduction to special relativity sufficient for the needs of the rest of the book. The book is then designed to give students insight and confidence in handling the basic equations of the theory. From the mathematical viewpoint, this requires good...

..., as the homebody twin can be considered to have done the travelling with respect to the traveller. Hence, it is called a “paradox”. In fact, there is no contradiction, and the apparent paradox has a simple resolution in special relativity with infinite flat space. In general relativity (dealing with gravitational...

...Restricted to special relativity, this chapter observes that the most significant change in the concept of time is certainly the relativity of simultaneity. What events are simultaneous with some event for one observer are different from those that are simultaneous with respect to an object...

... of relativity, and the question of which theory was to be preferred: Lorentz’s electron theory or Einstein’s special relativity theory? Einstein Albert 1879–1955 Aletta Catharina 1858–1931  passimAmpère André Marie 1775–1836 Laplace Pierre Simon 1749–1827 Oersted Hans Christian 1777–1851 Maxwell James Clerk...

... to a principle on par with the mechanical relativity principle, and how he transformed Lorentz s theory into a first version of special relativity. Chapter 7 describes the elaboration of more radical and more potent forms of special relativity in the hands of Einstein, Minkowski, and Laue. Chapter 8 shows how...

... potential 4 current 4 potential Special relativity Lorentz transformations spacetime 4-vectors 4-tensors covariant electrodynamics time dilation units Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two...

... United States Hebrew University American universities Chaim Weizmann theory of relativity special relativity general relativity Albert Einstein Einstein became famous after the confirmation of his prediction of the bending of light from distant stars by the gravitational...

... to publish over the course of time, up until the end of his life, his reflections on the major issues on the agenda of debates and efforts during the formative years of general relativity. Adams Edwin P cosmological epistemology pre relativity physics special relativity conservation law s principles...

... is in prima facie conflict with special relativity. The prospects for constructing a local hidden variable theory are assessed, in particular by invoking backward-in-time causation. Many-worlds theories do not invoke nonlocal causation. However, they do entail that microcausal explanations are in terms...

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...–Einstein result. But, however we got here, we now have all the ingredients we need. In September 1905, Einstein published a short addendum to his June paper on special relativity. This is what he did. The final step is now really rather obvious. The classical expression for kinetic energy is 1 2 m...

... velocity V to give Step (1) involves an almost trivial derivation of λ = h / p for photons, by comparing the energy derived from special relativity with the Planck–Einstein relation. This emphasizes the dual wave–particle nature of electromagnetic radiation—a wave-like property...

... with special relativity. I am getting ahead of myself. We need to see what these new versions of the moving spotlight theory look like. But before we do that we should see how the versions I have discussed are inconsistent, or something like inconsistent, with (1). In the last few chapters I have focused...