Recent Advances in Relativity Theory, Vol. 2: Material Interpretations
Selected Papers From the Biennial Conferences on Physical Interpretations of Relativity Theory (1988-1996). The conferences were sponsored by the British Society for the Philosophy of Science and held at the Imperial College, London.
Contents:
- 11 H.-H. v. Borzeszkowski & H.-J. Treder, MACH-EINSTEIN DOCTRINE AND GENERAL RELATIVITY
- 19 G. Cavalleri, E. Cesaroni & E. Tonni, THREE LEVELS OF INTERPRETING SPECIAL RELATIVITY
- 37 S.V.M. Clube, MASS INFLATION WITH LORENTZIAN GRAVITY
- 44 O. Costa de Beauregard, RELATIVITY AND PROBABILITY: THE LOGIC OF INTERSUBJECTIVITY
- 51 J. Dunning Davies & G.H.A. Cole, QUALMS CONCERNING RELATIVITY THEORY
- 60 M.C. Duffy, ETHER, COSMOLOGY AND GENERAL RELATIVITY
- 80 J.D. Edmonds, THE MISSING TERM IN THE DIRAC FACTORIZATION
- 85 Enrico Giannetto, A.N. WHITEHEAD ON SPECIAL RELATIVITY
- 90 Mehdi Golshani, HAVE PHYSICISTS BEEN ABLE TO DISPENSE WITH PHILOSOPHY?
- 98 Fran?ois Goy, NON-INVARIANT LIGHT-SPEED AND CLOCK SYNCHRONISATION
- 107 L.P. Horwitz, TIME AND STATE-EVOLUTION IN MECHANICS
- 121 A.G. Kelly, RELATIVITY AND THE SAGNAC EFFECT
- 130 G.H. Keswani, A CRITIQUE OF RELATIVITY
- 156 Willem de Muynck, ON MEASUREMENT IN RELATIVITY THEORY
- 169 Alexei V. Nesteruk, IS A WAVE FUNCTION COLLAPSE A REAL EVENT IN SPACE AND TIME?
- 180 H.P. Noyes & D. McGoveran, , OBSERVABLE RESULTS OF DISCRETE PHYSICS
- 191 Rinat Nugayev, TWO SHORT NOTES
- 196 Walter Petry, A THEORY OF GRAVITATION IN FLAT SPACE-TIME
- 213 M.F. Podlaha, MATTER WAVES AND UNIVERSAL FIELDS
- 218 N.V. Pope, THE TANTALIZING TWO-SLIT EXPERIMENT
- 228 Evert Jan Post, ASSESSING CONCEPTUAL TRENDS IN 20TH C PHYSICS
- 236 Stathis Psillos, CONCEPTIONS AND MISCONCEPTIONS OF \'ETHER\'
- 249 Peter Rowlands, AN ALGEBRA FOR RELATIVISTIC QUANTUM MECHANICS
- 267 Heinz-J?rgen Schmidt, ON A SYNTHETIC FORMULATION OF GENERAL RELATIVISTIC SPACETIME GEOMETRY
- 281 Franco Selleri, ON THE ANISOTROPY OF LIGHT PROPAGATION
- 284 N. Shanks, STOCHASTIC ELECTRODYNAMICS IN PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVE
- 297 R. Simon, THE WHITE-DWARF CONTROVERSY: GENERAL IDEAS BEHIND EDDINGTON\'S POSITION
- 302 Maurice Surdin, COSMOLOGY AND STOCHASTIC ELECTRODYNAMICS
- 322 L. Sz?kely, THE ANTHROPIC PRINCIPLE IN RELATIVISTIC COSMOLOGY
- 329 F. Winterberg, CANTOR\'S CONTINUUM HYPOTHESIS AND THE QUEST FOR AN AETHER
- 337 INDEX