Of all the books here, there is one that exists right on this temporal fault-line: Relativity, by Albert Einstein.
Mr. Benjamin's piece acknowledges that with fast travel, time zones and daylight saving plans, not to mention Einstein and relativity, things temporal have grown more complicated.
The effects of space charge, aberrations and relativity on temporal compression are investigated for a compact spherical electrostatic capacitor (α-SDA).
This quantity, then, is absolute in the sense of being frame- or observer-independent. (In the special theory of relativity the temporal interval between two distinct spacetime points fails to be absolute in this sense).
In general terms, then, Bohr proposed that, like temporal relations in special relativity, properties in QM exhibit a hidden relationalism — "hidden", that is, from a classical, Newtonian point of view.
Several of the paradoxes focus on negating commonsense distinctions, in particular spatial and temporal ones, partly by appeal to the relativity of comparisons and partly by appeal to indexicals (Hansen 1992: 262).
Does the special theory of relativity, for example, show that there is no temporal passage or that the future is as real as the present?
First, since neither spatial nor temporal intervals are invariants of the four-dimensional spacetime of the special theory of relativity and the general theory of relativity, the invariant spacetime interval \(ds\) cannot be directly ascertained by means of standard clocks and rigid rods.
If this latter is indeed an essential feature of a temporal picture of the world, then it would seem that special relativity does not provide us with a temporal picture of the world.
It is the Special Theory of Relativity (STR) which has had most impact on the debate about temporal parts: three quite different arguments have been proposed, each of which purports to show that STR lends support to the perdurantist claim that things have temporal parts.
To sum up, then, Sellars' attempt to tie existence to temporal notions, when properly relativized, is either a bland re-statement of what special relativity tells us already about simultaneity or an opaque statement about relativized existence.
