| Charles Lane Poor - 1922 - 350 Seiten
...has its own particular time: "unless we are told the reference-body to which the statement of time refers, there is no meaning in a statement of the time of an event" (32). The faster the body moves, the longer become the time intervals. The earth travels about the... | |
| G.L. Pandit - 1983 - 266 Seiten
...system) has its own particular time; unless we are told the reference-body to which the statement of time refers, there is no meaning in a statement of the time of an event."75 The kind of advance that the Einsteinian requirement for physical concepts and hence physical... | |
| Jack Louis Jordan - 1993 - 150 Seiten
...system) has its own particular time; unless we are told the reference-body to which the statement of time refers, there is no meaning in a statement of the time of an event" (26). As we shall soon see, Marcel will try to imprison Albertine on the train, in the compartment,... | |
| Elazar Barkan, Ronald Bush - 1995 - 468 Seiten
...compound form, spaee / time. "Unless we are told the reference-body to which the statement of time refers, there is no meaning in a statement of the time of an event"; "every reference-body (co-ordinate system) has its own particular time" (Einstein, Relativity, p. 26).... | |
| Vyvyan Evans - 2003 - 308 Seiten
...system) has its own particular time; unless we are told the reference-body to which the statement of time refers, there is no meaning in a statement of the time of an event. ( Ibid.: 30-3 1 ; original emphasis) The startling consequence to emerge from this, then, is that simultaneity,... | |
| Peggy Rosenthal - 2005 - 320 Seiten
...system) has its own particular time; unless we are told the reference-body to which the statement of time refers, there is no meaning in a statement of the time of an event. "There is no such thing as an independently existing trajectory"; "there is no meaning in a statement... | |
| Roy Harris - 2005 - 237 Seiten
...(Einstein 1961: 26). Furthermore, 'unless we are told the reference-body to which the statement of time refers, there is no meaning in a statement of the time of an event' (Einstein 1961: 26). That would have been news to most train drivers before and since. For it always... | |
| Wai-chee Dimock - 2006 - 274 Seiten
...system) has its own particular time; unless we are told the reference-body to which the statement of time refers, there is no meaning in a statement of the time of an event.22 Simultaneity turns out not to be generalizable. Two events might be simultaneous in one frame... | |
| Max Jammer - 2006 - 332 Seiten
...system) has its own particular time; unless we are told the reference-body to which the statement of time refers, there is no meaning in a statement of the time of an event.60 It is clear that the simultaneity of the two lightning strikes, hitting A and B, is assured,... | |
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