Einstein, Relativity and Absolute Simultaneity

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-415-59166-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 310 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 488 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lane Craig, William

Smith, Quentin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

William Craig Lane, Quentin Smith