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  1. Formalism to deal with Reichenbach's special theory of relativity.Abraham A. Ungar - 1991 - Foundations of Physics 21 (6):691-726.
    The objective of this article is to provide a formalism to deal with the special theory of relativity (STR, in short) as riewed by Reichenbach, according to which STR involves an ineradicableconventionality of simultaneity. One of the two postulates of STR asserts that, in empty space, the one-way speed of light relative to inertial frames is constant. Experimental evidence, however, is related to the constancy of the round-trip speed of light and has no bearing on one-way speeds. Following Reichenbach's viewpoint, (...)
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  • Simultaneity, conventionality and existence.Vesselin Petkov - 1989 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 40 (1):69-76.
    The present paper pursues two aims. First to show that the experiment proposed by Stolakis [1986] does not lead to absolute synchronization in a single frame of reference and therefore also to the measurement of one-way velocity of light. Second, by consecutively considering the problems of the conventionality of simultaneity and of existence to show that the simultaneity of distant events can be a matter of convention only in a four-dimensional world. * I am grateful to the anonymous referees for (...)
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  • Conventionalism in physics.W. T. Morris - 1989 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 40 (1):135-136.
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  • An empirical, purely spatial criterion for the planes ofF-simultaneity.Robert Alan Coleman & Herbert Korte - 1991 - Foundations of Physics 21 (4):417-437.
    The claim that distant simultaneity with respect to an inertial observer is conventional arose in the context of a space-and-time rather than a spacetime ontology. Reformulating this problem in terms of a spacetime ontology merely trivializes it. In the context of flat space, flat time, and a linear inertial structure (a purely space-and-time formalism), we prove that the hyperplanes of space for a given inertial observer are determined by a purely spatial criterion that depends for its validity only on the (...)
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  • Some recent controversy over the possibility of experimentally determining isotropy in the speed of light.Robert K. Clifton - 1989 - Philosophy of Science 56 (4):688-696.
    The most recent attempt at factually establishing a "true" value for the one-way velocity of light is shown to be faulty. The proposal consists of two round-trip photons travelling first in vacuo and then through a medium of refractive index n before returning to their common point of origin. It is shown that this proposal, as well as a similar one considered by Salmon (1977), presupposes that the one-way velocities of light are equal to the round-trip value. Furthermore, experiments of (...)
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