Concepts of Simultaneity: From Antiquity to Einstein and Beyond

Index

Index absolute time, 69, 70, 73 Adler, F., 221, 222 Aenesidemus, 45 Agostinelli, L., 122 Aharoni, Y., 290 Albertus Magnus, 56 Alcock, G. R., 290 Alexander of Aphrodisias, 54, 55 Alexander, A., 149 Alexander, H. G., 74 Allcock, G. R., 290 Al-Nazzam, A. I., 27 Alonso, M., 99 Amerio, A., 221 analogies of experience (Kant), 86 Anderson, A., 283 Anderson, R., 263, 269, 270 Aničin, B. A., 229 Aquinas, T., 52, 53 Aristotle, 24–27, 31, 36, 40, 45, 53, 81 arrow of time, 26 Arthur, R. T. W., 83 Arzeliès, H., 146, 165, 178, 242, 271 Aspect, A., 294 astrology, 21, 49 Augustinus, St., 31, 44, 48, 53, 65 Augustynek, Z., 227 Autolycus, 68 automorphisms, 299 Ayer, A. A., 4 Babovic, V. M., 229 Baensch, H., 234 Ballentine, L. E., 294 Barbour, J. B., 3, 30 Bare, C., 238 Bar-Hillel, Y., 14 Barnes, J., 25, 29 Barrow, L., 69, 70, 71 Barth, G., 234 Bartlett, J., 9 Bartrum, C. O., 181 Basri, S. A., 271, 277 Baumann, J. J., 81 Bayle, P., 28 Beauregard, O. C. de, 288 Beck, A., 113 Bell, J. S., 293, 294 Benedicks, C., 222 Bentley, R., 34 Berber, H., 19 Bergmann, H., 149 Bergmann, P. G., 169 Bergson, H., 149, 155, 156, 162 Berkeley, G., 77, 78 Bernays, P., 153 Berry, G. R., 29 Besso, M., 106 Bilger, H. R., 283 Blasius of Parma, 43, 65 Blum, W., 2 Blumenthal, O., 111 Boethius, 50, 51 Bohm, D., 290, 292, 293 Bol, K., 231 Bonnycastle, J., 13 Borel, A., 105 Born, M., 165, 229 Bose, N., 113 Bostock, D., 40 Bowman, P., 211, 246 Boyd, R., 199 Bradley, J., 64 Bradwardine, Th., 68 Brahee, T., 101 Brennich, H., 267 Bridgman, P. W., 198, 199 Brill, A., 149 Brown, G. B., 227 Brown, J. R., 82, 294 Browne, P. F., 5 Budge, W. E., 8 Bussey, P. J., 294 Čapek, M., 60, 95, 100, 162, 296 Capelle, C., 22 Carnap, R., 14, 192 Cartan, E., 287 Cartwright, M., 6 Cassini, G. D., 63, 67 Cattaneo, C., 284 causal automorphism, 256 causal chain, 193 causal theory of time, 82 causality, 45 cavity microwave resonance method, 231–33 Chang, H., 6, 242 Chang, T., 233 Charlton, W., 74 Ciufolini, I., 271 Clark, R. W., ix, 4 Clarke, S., 74 Clifton, R. K., 236 clocks, 61–63 coexistence, 57 Cohen, I. B., 64 Cohen, J. M., 280, 293 Cohen, R. S., 140 Cohn, E., 145 Cole, T. W., 233 Coleman, R. A., 269 consecutiveness, 83 contemporaneity, 10, 11 conventionalism, 95, 100, 101 conventionality of simultaneity, 104, 135, 171–91, 251–70 Cover, J. A., 82 Cunningham, E., 152 D’Abro, A., 162 Dalibard, J., 294 Danton, A., 193 Davidovič, D. M., 229 Davis, P. C. W., 294 De Ritis, D., 236 Debrock, G., 265 Debs, T. A., 262 Democritos, 23 detemporalization of simultaneity, 97 dichotomy, 24 Dieks, D., 265 Diels, H., 23, 29 dimensionality speculations, 93 Dingle, H., 165 Dingler, H., 114, 115, 241 Diogenes Laertius, 26 direction-dependent synchronization parameter, 187 Dirks, U., 175 Driver, S. R., 18 Duhem, P., 57 Dumbleton, J., 68 Dunoyer, L., 149 duration, 76, 80 Durbin, K. A., 190 Dũrr, H. P., 2 Eagle, A., 223 Earman, J., 79, 200, 250 Eberhard, P. H., 294 Eckoff, W. J., 83 Eddington, A. S., 172, 173 Edwards, P., 162 Edwards, W. F., 251 Egusquiza, I. C., 289 Ehrenfest paradox, 278 Ehrenfest, P., 278 Einstein, A., ix, 2, 9, 106–142, 181, 278, 291 Einstein, M. M., 106 Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox, 295 Ellis, B., 211, 246, 249 embankment thought experiment, 132, 196 Engelmann, F., 290 entangled states, 291 equal passage principle, 253 equivalence class, 202 equivalence relation, 201, 297 Eratosthenes, 19 302 Index Erlichson, H., 226, 227 Ernst, F., 9 Essen, L., 227, 229, 231 ET simultaneity, 52 eternity, 39, 50, 51 Euclidean geometry, 99 Euler, L., 82 event simultaneity, 10 event, 9 Eyfferth, M., 92 Fakhry, M., 65 Feenberg, E., 224 Feigl, H., 4 Feynman, R. P., 231 Fick, E., 290 Field, J. H., 146 Fink, E., 14 Finn, E. J., 99 Flaclas, C., 282, 283 Flũckinger, M., 122 Fock, V. A., 290 Fölsing, A., 3, 108 Föppl, P., 17 Fraassen, B. C. van, 82, 90, 211 Francis, R., 216, 269 Frank, P., 138, 146, 267 Freeman, K., 23, 51 Frege, F. L. G., 143 Freundlich, E., 186 Friedman, M., 200, 250, 254...