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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the philosophy and ethics of science and technology. What is happening right now? Is your “now” the same as my “now” ...

Le raisonnement selon lequel la simultanéité est relative du point de vue de l'observateur est fondamental dans la Relativité restreinte. Pourtant, l'analyse de ce raisonnement mène aux critiques ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract David Malament's (1977) well-known result, which is often taken to show the uniqueness of the Poincare-Einstein convention for defining ...

What does it mean to be to space-time? The seemingly simple question gets to the essence of twentieth-century physics and has driven a hundred-year debate between philosophy and science. In Einstein’s ...