http://www.routledge-philosophy.com/books/Einstein-Relativity-and-Absolute-Simultaneity-isbn9780415701747
"Einstein, Relativity and Absolute Simultaneity is an anthology of
original essays by an international team of leading philosophers and
physicists who, on the centenary of Albert Einsteins Special Theory of
Relativity, come together in this volume to reassess the contemporary
paradigm of the relativistic concept of time."
http://philosophy.ucsd.edu/faculty/ccallender/
"On Finding 'Real' Time in Quantum Mechanics" (draft) Absolute
Simultaneity. (Eds) W.L. Craig and Q. Smith. NY: OxfordUniversity
Press, 2007.
Craig Callender: "In my opinion, by far the best way for the tenser to
respond to Putnam et al is to adopt the Lorentz 1915 interpretation of
time dilation and Fitzgerald contraction.1 Lorentz attributed these
effects (and hence the famous null results regarding an aether) to the
Lorentz invariance of the dynamical laws governing matter and
radiation, not to spacetime structure. On this view, Lorentz
invariance is not a spacetime symmetry but a dynamical symmetry, and
the special relativistic effects of dilation and contraction are not
purely kinematical. The background spacetime is Newtonian or neo-
Newtonian, not Minkowskian. Both Newtonian and neo-Newtonian
spacetime include a global absolute simultaneity among their invariant
structures (with Newtonian spacetime singling out one of neo-Newtonian
spacetime's many preferred inertial frames as the rest frame). On
this picture, there is no relativity of simultaneity and spacetime is
uniquely decomposable into space and time."
In a world different from Einstein zombie world the immediate question
would be:
"No relativity of simultaneity? No length contraction? No Minkowski
space-time? Then perhaps Einstein's 1905 light postulate, the logical
source of all those non-entities, is false?"
In Einstein zombie world an immediate reaction is:
No special relativity! Long live general relativity!":
http://www.amazon.com/Relativity-Curved-Spacetime-without-relativity/dp/0955706807
"Relativity in Curved Spacetime: Life without special relativity" by
Eric Baird
"Relativity theory has become one of the icons of Twentieth Century
science. It's reckoned to be a difficult subject, taught as a layered
series of increasingly difficult mathematics and increasingly abstract
concepts. We're told that relativity theory is supposed to be this
complicated and counter-intuitive. But how much of this historical
complexity is really necessary? Can we bypass the interpretations and
paradoxes and pseudoparadoxes of Einstein's special theory and jump
directly to a deeper and more intuitive description of reality? What
if curvature is a fundamental part of physics, and a final theory of
relativity shouldn't reduce to Einstein's "flat" 1905 theory //on
principle//? "Relativity..." takes us on a whistlestop tour of
Twentieth Century physics - from black holes, quantum mechanics,
wormholes and the Big Bang to the workings of the human mind, and
asks: what would physics look like without special relativity?"
Pentcho Valev
pva...@yahoo.com
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/physics/pdf/0604/0604010v1.pdf
Absolute simultaneity: Special relativity without light signals or
synchronised clocks, J.H.Field, Departement de Physique Nucleaire et
Corpusculaire, Universite de Geneve
"Using only the reciprocity postulate, it is demonstrated that the
spatial separation of two objects, at rest in some inertial frame, is
invariant. This result holds in both Galilean and special relativity.
A corollary is that there are no 'length contraction' or associated
'relativity of simultaneity' effects in the latter theory. A thought
experiment employing four unsynchronised clocks and a single measuring
rod provides a demonstration of the time dilatation effect. This
effect, which is universal for all synchronised clocks at rest in any
inertial frame, is the unique space-time phenomenon discriminating
Galilean and special relativity."
This John Field is dealing with students' rationality at the
Universite de Geneve. Some of those students may become Budding Young
Einsteins; then they will undergo further treatement at Canada's
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics:
http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/News/In_The_Media/100_Budding_Young_Einsteins/
In the end some of the Budding Young Einsteins may become Flourishing
Young Einsteins and this means that they will have deep insights, like
their teachers: there is no length contraction but there is time
dilation, the speed of light is both constant and variable etc.
Pentcho Valev
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http://www.amazon.com/Language-Time-Quentin-Smith/dp/0195155947
"This book offers a defense of the tensed theory of time, a critique
of the New Theory of Reference, and an argument that SIMULTANEITY IS
ABSOLUTE..... He concludes the book with a lengthy critique of
Einstein's theory of time. Smith offers a positive argument for
ABSOLUTE SIMULTANEITY..."
Einstein zombie world:
http://www.bnl.gov/community/Tours/EinsteinPics/Einsteine.jpg
http://www.haverford.edu/physics-astro/songs/divine.htm
http://www.physicstoday.org/vol-58/iss-7/images/devine_einstein.mp3
Pentcho Valev
pva...@yahoo.com