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Simultaneity and Einstein's Gedankenexperiment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

Michael Cohen
Affiliation:
University College of Swansea

Abstract

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Discussion
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1989

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References

1 Herbert, R. T., ‘The Relativity of Simultaneity’, Philosophy 62, No. 242 (10 1987), 456.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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3 Herbert, , op. cit., 458.Google Scholar

4 Ibid., 459.

5 Loc. cit.

6 Ibid., 460.

7 Einstein, Albert, Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (London: Methuen (University Paperback), 15th edn, 1960), 26.Google Scholar