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http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/physics/pdf/0604/0604010v1.pdf
Absolute simultaneity: Special relativity without light signals or
synchronised clocks, J.H.Field, Departement de Physique Nucleaire et
Corpusculaire, Universite de Geneve
"Using only the reciprocity postulate, it is demonstrated that the
spatial separation of two objects, at rest in some inertial frame, is
invariant. This result holds in both Galilean and special relativity.
A corollary is that there are no "length contraction" or associated
"relativity of simultaneity" effects in the latter theory."

http://www.routledge-philosophy.com/books/Einstein-Relativity-and-Absolute-Simultaneity-isbn9780415701747
"Einstein, Relativity and Absolute Simultaneity is an anthology of
original essays by an international team of leading philosophers and
physicists who, on the centenary of Albert Einsteins Special Theory of
Relativity, come together in this volume to reassess the contemporary
paradigm of the relativistic concept of time."

http://philosophy.ucsd.edu/faculty/ccallender/
"On Finding 'Real' Time in Quantum Mechanics" (draft) Absolute
Simultaneity. (Eds) W.L. Craig and Q. Smith. NY: OxfordUniversity
Press, 2007.
Craig Callender: "In my opinion, by far the best way for the tenser to
respond to Putnam et al is to adopt the Lorentz 1915 interpretation of
time dilation and Fitzgerald contraction.1  Lorentz attributed these
effects (and hence the famous null results regarding an aether) to the
Lorentz invariance of the dynamical laws governing matter and
radiation, not to spacetime structure.  On this view, Lorentz
invariance is not a spacetime symmetry but a dynamical symmetry, and
the special relativistic effects of dilation and contraction are not
purely kinematical.  The background spacetime is Newtonian or neo-
Newtonian, not Minkowskian.  Both Newtonian and neo-Newtonian
spacetime include a global absolute simultaneity among their invariant
structures (with Newtonian spacetime singling out one of neo-Newtonian
spacetime's many preferred inertial frames as the rest frame).  On
this picture, there is no relativity of simultaneity and spacetime is
uniquely decomposable into space and time."

In a world different from Einstein zombie world the immediate question
would be:

"No relativity of simultaneity? No length contraction? No Minkowski
space-time? Then perhaps Einstein's 1905 light postulate, the logical
source of all those non-entities, is false?"

In Einstein zombie world an immediate reaction is:

No special relativity! Long live general relativity!":

http://www.amazon.com/Relativity-Curved-Spacetime-without-relativity/dp/0955706807
"Relativity in Curved Spacetime: Life without special relativity" by
Eric Baird
"Relativity theory has become one of the icons of Twentieth Century
science. It's reckoned to be a difficult subject, taught as a layered
series of increasingly difficult mathematics and increasingly abstract
concepts. We're told that relativity theory is supposed to be this
complicated and counter-intuitive. But how much of this historical
complexity is really necessary? Can we bypass the interpretations and
paradoxes and pseudoparadoxes of Einstein's special theory and jump
directly to a deeper and more intuitive description of reality? What
if curvature is a fundamental part of physics, and a final theory of
relativity shouldn't reduce to Einstein's "flat" 1905 theory //on
principle//? "Relativity..." takes us on a whistlestop tour of
Twentieth Century physics - from black holes, quantum mechanics,
wormholes and the Big Bang to the workings of the human mind, and
asks: what would physics look like without special relativity?"

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