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{{Infobox paper
| title = Distant Simultaneity and the Bilateral Symmetry of a Rotating Object: An Epistemic Alternative to Newton\'s Water Bucket Experiment as the Cornerstone in Philosophy of Space and Time, Part 2
| author = [[Thomas Geoffrey Franzel]]
| keywords = [[conventionalism]], [[standard signal synchrony]], [[relativity of simultaneity]], [[Arzeli?]], [[s' clocks]], [[mind-dependent]], [[problem of identity]], [[kinematics]], [[dynamics]], [[field and background reversal]]
| published = 1988
| journal = [[Physics Essays]]
| volume = [[1]]
| number = [[4]]
| pages = 213-243
}}

==Abstract==

This is the second half of an essay which began in the last issue of Physics Essays.&nbsp; In the first half, a different topic was surveyed in each of the three sections: the conventionality of simultaneity, two paradigms of clocks and time, and how "relationalism" has been the subject of longstanding philosphical interest and disagreement.

&nbsp;Now, in the first section of&nbsp;Part 2, the focus shifts to rotational symmetry and its connection to distant simultaneity.&nbsp; A number of of fundamental results are derived from an argument that is partly physical and partly philosphical.&nbsp; This deeply rooted critique of current theory leads to a qualitative description of an alternate research program with close ties to historical efforts.&nbsp; An outline of the program gradually develops in the the final two sections.&nbsp; Supporting details are mixed with, and arise from, various additional arguments for the original thesis.

&nbsp; The main theme of the second section is an examination of the philosophical difficulties in the "local-distant" dichotomy.&nbsp; Other issues are gradually intertwined and developed.

&nbsp;Section 3 is a concluding survey and summary which brings together historical and contemporary issues and maintains that the difficulties in both may spring from a common cause: the problem in the theoretical foundation disclosed by the rotational symmetry argument.&nbsp; &nbsp; (Physics Essays: 1, no. 4,&nbsp;pp. 213-243)&nbsp;

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