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Bell's Spaceships Problem and the Foundations of Special Relativity, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science (2011)

Recent ‘dynamical’ approaches to relativity by Harvey Brown and his colleagues have used John Bell’s...

 

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Communicating with Accelerated Observers in Minkowski Spacetime, European Journal of Physics (2008)

Our goal here is to determine the spatial and temporal constraints on communication between two...

 

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On the Interpretation of the Equation E = mc2: Response to Krajewski, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science (2006)
 

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Bell's Spaceships: A Useful Relativistic Paradox, Physics Education (2005)

Bell’s spaceship ‘paradox’ [1] in special relativity is a particularly good one to examine with...

 

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Interpretations of Einstein's Equation E = mc2, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science (2005)

Interpretations of Einstein’s equation differ primarily concerning whether E = mc2 entails that mass and...