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Jackson and Pargetter on Distant Simultaneity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

Burke Townsend
Burke Townsend*
Affiliation:
University of Montana
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Extract

In their article, “Relative Simultaneity in the Special Theory of Relativity,” Jackson and Pargetter (1977) have offered a method to determine distant simultaneity which they claim to be independent of any assumptions concerning one-way velocities and thus a basis for denying the conventionality of distant simultaneity within the framework of the Special Theory. In what follows, I shall argue that the case they make to support the claim to independence is mistaken.

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Discussion
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 47 , Issue 4 , December 1980 , pp. 646 - 655
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Copyright © 1980 by Philosophy of Science Association

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