Title Concepts of simultaneity : from antiquity to Einstein and beyond / Max Jammer.

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Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.

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Description	1 online resource (x, 308 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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""
Subject	Simultaneity (Physics)
	Physics -- Philosophy.
	Relativity (Physics)
	Space and time.
	Time -- Philosophy.
	Physics -- Philosophy.
	Relativity (Physics)
	Simultaneity (Physics)
	Space and time.
	Time -- Philosophy.
	SCIENCE -- Physics -- Relativity.
	Physics -- Philosophy. (OCoLC)fst01063079
	Relativity (Physics) (OCoLC)fst01093604
	Simultaneity (Physics) (OCoLC)fst01740428
	Space and time. (OCoLC)fst01127622
	Time -- Philosophy. (OCoLC)fst01151053
	Ruimte-tijd-theorie.
	Filosofische aspecten.
	Theoretische fysica.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Jammer, Max. Concepts of simultaneity. Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006 0801884225 9780801884221 (DLC) 2006048564 (OCoLC)70129242
ISBN	9780801889530 (electronic bk.)
	0801889537 (electronic bk.)

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