Einstein, Relativity and Absolute Simultaneity

William Lane Craig, Quentin Smith0415701740, 9780415701747, 9780203700051, 0203700058

Einstein, Relativity and Absolute Simultaneity is 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. 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. There is no other book like this available; hence philosophers and scientists across the world will welcome its publication.

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Table of contents :
Book Cover……Page 1
Title……Page 4
Copyright……Page 5
Contents……Page 6
Illustrations……Page 8
Introduction……Page 10
1 The metaphysics of special relativity: three views……Page 20
2 Finding ‘‘real’’ time in quantum mechanics……Page 59
3 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……Page 82
4 Hidden variables and the large-scale structure of space-time……Page 134
5 Non-local correlations in quantum theory: how the trick might be done……Page 165
6 The zero acceleration discontinuity and absolute simultaneity……Page 189
7 Global Positioning System and the twins’ paradox……Page 221
8 A defense of absolute simultaneity……Page 238
9 Cosmic simultaneity……Page 253
10 Presentism, eternalism and relativity physics……Page 271
11 The Special Theory and absolute simultaneity……Page 288
Index……Page 300