Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1161037 | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics | 2012 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
As is well known from Einstein (1905) the choice of a criterion for distant simultaneity is equivalent to stipulating one-way speeds for the transit of light. It is shown that any choice of non-standard synchrony is equivalent to a Lorentz local time boost. From this and considerations from the hole argument, it follows that there is a non-trivial sense in which distant simultaneity is conventional, at least to the extent that the “gauge freedom” arising in the hole argument is non-trivial.
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Authors
Robert Rynasiewicz,