Research Catalog

Title

Einstein, relativity and absolute simultaneity / edited by William Lane Craig and Quentin Smith.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Craig, William Lane.
• Smith, Quentin, 1952-

Description

vi, 302 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Einstein, Albert > Spezielle Relativitätstheorie > Aufsatzsammlung
• Relativity (Physics)
• Special relativity (Physics)
• Absolute simultaneity
• Space and time
• Bell's theorem
• Lorentz transformations
• Relativité (Physique)
• Relativité restreinte (Physique)
• Théorème de Bell
• Transformations de Lorentz
• Spezielle Relativitätstheorie > Einstein, Albert > Aufsatzsammlung

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The metaphysics of special relativity : three views / William Lane Craig -- Finding "real" time in quantum mechanics / Craig Callender -- 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 / Quentin Smith -- Hidden variables and the large-scale structure of space-time / 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 -- Global Positioning System and the twins' paradox / Tom Van Flandern -- A defense of absolute simultaneity / Michael Tooley -- Cosmic simultaneity / Richard Swinburne -- Presentism, eternalism and relativity physics / Thomas M. Crisp -- Special Theory and absolute simultaneity / John Lucas.

ISBN

• 9780415701747
• 0415701740
• 9780415591669
• 041559166X
• 9780203700051
• 0203700058

LCCN

2006015456

OCLC

• ocm69020927
• 69020927
• SCSB-1460984

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library