Spreading time through space: An analysis of the conventionality of intra-frame simultaneity.
It is shown that the simultaneity of distant events is taken for granted by some major thinkers, most notably Leibniz and Newton, preceding Einstein. However, in 1905, the STR's examination, and subsequent reconstruction, of this assumption, engendered two types of simultaneity: intra-frame and...
Main Author: | Feist, Richard. |
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Other Authors: | Leroux, Jean |
Format: | Others |
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University of Ottawa (Canada)
2009
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10393/6622 http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-11365 |
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