Concepts of simultaneity : from antiquity to Einstein and beyond /
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Baltimore, Md. :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Terminological Preliminaries""; ""2 The Concept of Simultaneity in Antiquity""; ""3 Medieval Conceptions of Simultaneity""; ""4 The Concept of Simultaneity in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries""; ""5 The Concept of Simultaneity in Classical Physics""; ""6 The Transition to the Relativistic Conception of Simultaneity""; ""7 Simultaneity in the Special Theory of Relativity""; ""8 The Reception of the Relativistic Conception of Simultaneity""; ""9 The Conventionality Thesis""; ""10 The Promulgation of the Conventionality Thesis""
- ""11 Symmetry and Transitivity of Simultaneity""""12 Arguments against the Conventionality Thesis""; ""13 Clock Transport Synchrony""; ""14 Recent Debates on the Conventionality of Simultaneity""; ""15 Simultaneity in General Relativity and in Quantum Mechanics""; ""Epilogue""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""