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Answer by Marco Ocram for Help Understanding an Argument For Temporal Parts

A key consequence of special relativity is that simultaneity is frame dependent. To explore this, imagine a train passing a platform at noon, and suppose that there are clocks all along the train and...

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The key to understanding the point being made here is the difference between spacetime in relativity theory and the sort of spacetime you might use for non-relativistic physics (sometimes called...

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Help Understanding an Argument For Temporal Parts

The following argument is presented from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy regarding the existence of perdurantism (temporal parts):A third argument from STR to perdurantism does not rely on the...

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