Le raisonnement selon lequel la simultanéité est relative du point de vue de l'observateur est fondamental dans la Relativité restreinte. Pourtant, l'analyse de ce raisonnement mène aux critiques ...

The conventionality of simultaneity at distant points is defended partly by reference to Einstein's 1905 paper founding special relativity. His famous light-signaling definition takes the transit time ...

Do claims about the future presently have truth values? Do objects have temporal parts? Is time travel possible? What does special relativity have to say about the previous questions? We will do some ...

The debate over globalization currently appears to have reached a state of exhaustion. This is due not to a weakening of the underlying process, but to a lack of air for new interpretive ideas. Almost ...

The Sagnac effect, first observed over a century ago, remains central to our understanding of relativistic kinematics and the operational definitions of simultaneity. Fundamentally, this effect arises ...

THIS pamphlet gives a clear account of the fundamental bases of Einstein's special theory of relativity from the point of view of the logician. The author reaches the conclusion, with which ...

In the beginning of the year 1905, Albert Einstein was an unknown 25-year-old clerk in the Swiss patent office. By the end of the year, he had published four papers of extraordinary importance. His ...

For perhaps the hundredth time, I try to think like Einstein. A burst of light is seen by two observers: one stationary on a platform, the other moving in a train. Assume the speed of light is the ...

IN June of 1905 the theory of special relativity was explained in two papers, one written by Henri Poincare, and the other by Albert Einstein. Poincare sent his paper "On the Dynamics of the Electron" ...