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Directed theories of time and the conventionality of simultaneity

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Directed theories of time maintain that time has an objective ‘future’ direction. In this talk, I illustrate a sense in which such theories are incompatible with special relativity. My conclusion follows almost immediately from a particular choice simultaneity relation for a uniformly accelerated observer. I prove that, in a certain natural sense stemming from the work of Malament (1977), this is the unique simultaneity relation available to such observers.

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