Book Reviews: Philosophical Problems of the Hypothesis of Velocities Greater than the Speed of Light, ed. Iu. B. Molchanov (Moscow: "Nauka" Publishers, 1986, 160 pp.).
There is a very lively discussion going on in the contemporary literature of physics and philosophy concerning the extent to which a postulate flowing from classical electrodynamics, and now one of the basic postulates of the special theory of relativity (STR), is obligatory; this postulate states t...
| Published in: | Russian Studies in Philosophy Vol. 27; no. 1; pp. 83 - 89 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jul1988
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| Summary: | There is a very lively discussion going on in the contemporary literature of physics and philosophy concerning the extent to which a postulate flowing from classical electrodynamics, and now one of the basic postulates of the special theory of relativity (STR), is obligatory; this postulate states that the speed of light in a vacuum in an inertial system of coordinates is the greatest possible velocity for physical bodies and the transmission of informative material interactions. |
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