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{{Infobox paper
| title = Absolute Simultaneity With and Without Light Signals
| author = [[Thomas E Phipps]]
| keywords = [[Distant simultaneity]], [[clock synchronization]], [[clock rates]], [[absolute simultaneity]], [[action-at-a-distance]], [[Hertzian electromagnetism]], [[neo-Hertzian electromagnetism]]
| published = 1996
| journal = [[Galilean Electrodynamics]]
| volume = [[7]]
| number = [[3]]
| pages = 43-50
}}

==Abstract==

It is demonstrated, first by a specific example related to Einstein's "train" and then by a more general argument, that absolute synchronicity of clocks permanently at rest is various inertial systems is attainable without any transport of the clocks or use of light signals, provided that a method is agreed upon for synchronizing clocks in a single inertial system.&nbsp; The assumption on which this rests is that relative <em>clock rates</em> are determined by their relative <em>states of motion, </em>not by their locations in space (either absolute or relative to an observer or coordinate origin).&nbsp; It is then shown that the same result, absoluteness of simultaneity, together with related results such an length invariance, can be attained by use of light signals, compatibly with a relativity principle, provided these signals are described by neo-Hertzian, rathen than by Maxwellian, electromagnetism.

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