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CONTENTS

• Preface by P. Rowlands (8)
• Brief Preamble (9)
• Short Introduction (11)

1. Relativities at Variance (12)
2. The Idea of a Cosmic Time (22)
3. Milne's Kinematic Relativity (37)
4. Various Cosmological Models (55)
5. Big Bang contra Steady State (64)
6. New Axioms for Cosmology (78)
7. Constructivism in Science (96)
8. Fundamental Queries (108)
9. Compact Conclusion (125)

• Acknowledgment (126)
• References (127)
• Index (132)

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
  

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 Harold Aspden, FOUR QUESTIONS CONCERNING RELATIVITY
•  21 Y.V. Balashov, STEADY STATE COSMOLOGIES AS SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH PROGRAM
•  27 John F. Barrett, HYPERBOLIC GEOMETRY IN SPECIAL RELATIVITY AND ITS RELATION TO THE COSMOLOGY OF MILNE
•  35 Marius Borneas, ON THE CONCEPTS OF SPACE AND TIME
•  39 Claude Comte, THE FUNDAMENTAL R?LE OF THE REFERENCE FRAME REVISITED
•  47 William Lane Craig, RELATIVITY AND THE "ELIMINATION" OF ABSOLUTE TIME
•  67 S.K. Ghosal & P. Chakraborty, THE CONCEPT OF LORENTZ INVARIANT CLOCKS
•  73 Roger C. Jennison, PROPER TIME, PROPER LENGTH AND SOME COMMENTS ON THE CONCEPTS OF TIME AND DISTANCE
•  84 Ludwik Kostro, WHAT IS THIS: A CLOCK IN RELATIVITY THEORY?
•  91 Peter Kroes, TIME DILATION WITHIN SPECIAL RELATIVITY
• 107 Francis Mathe, PROBLEMS OF TIME SCALE IN COSMOLOGY
• 111 Storrs McCall, TOWARDS A LORENTZ-INVARIANT THEORY OF COLLAPSE
• 123 Andr? Mercier, THE RECONSTRUCTION OF SPACE-TIME AS TIME-SPACE
• 133 W. Trevor Morris, ON RELATIVITY AND CAUSALITY
• 138 K.K. Nandi, SOME ASPECTS OF MINIMALLY RELATIVISTIC NEWTONIAN GRAVITY
• 140 Peter ?hrstr?m, TENSE LOGIC AND SPECIAL RELATIVITY
• 149 A. Paparodopoulos, LIGHT PROPAGATION IN AN EXPANDING UNIVERSE
• 152 Simon J. Prokhovnik, THE NATURE AND IMPLICATIONS OF THE ROBERTSON-WALKER METRIC
• 159 David Roscoe, INERTIA, GRAVITATION, AND THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY
• 170 Mendel Sachs, ON THE MEANING OF SPACE AND TIME
• 177 Ruggero M. Santilli, DIRECT UNIVERSALITY OF ISOSPECIAL RELATIVITY FOR GENERALIZED SPACETIMES
• 195 Chalmers W. Sherwin, TRANSIENT EFFECTS IN SPECIAL RELATIVITY
• 201 Torgny Sj?din, ON THE ONE-WAY VELOCITY OF LIGHT & ITS POSSIBLE MEASURABILITY
• 206 Lawrence Sklar, THE CONVENTIONALITY OF SIMULTANEITY! AGAIN?
• 217 A.V. Soldatov, PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS OF THE WORLD PICTURE OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE
• 220 R. Tavakol, GEOMETRY OF SPACE-TIME & FINSLER SPACES
• 225 S.C. Tiwari, REALITY, INTUITION, AND MIND: REFLECTIONS ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF H. POINCAR?
• 232 Barrie J. Tonkinson, CLOCKS DON?T GO SLOW, RODS DON?T CONTRACT
• 245 H?kan T?rnebohm, INFRA-THEORIES TO THE SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY
• 255 Mogens Wegener, IDEAS OF COSMOLOGY: A PHILOSOPHER'S SYNTHESIS
• 275 INDEX