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Bertotti, B., L. less and P. Tortora. "A Test of General Relativity Using Radio Links with the Cassini Spacecraft." Nature 425, no. 6956 (September 25, 2003): 374-376. [abstract]

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Breslau, Daniel. " Sociology after Humanism: A Lesson from Contemporary Science Studies." Sociological Theory 18, no. 2 (July 2000): 289-307. [abstract]

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Cahill, Reginald T. "Absolute Motion and Gravitational Effects." http://www.scieng.flinders.edu.au/cpes/people/cahill_r/processphysics.html (2004). [abstract] 

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_____.  "Process Physics: From Quantum Foam to General Relativity."  http://www.scieng.flinders.edu.au/cpes/people/cahill_r/processphysics.html (2002). [abstract] 

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Capek, Milic. “The Myth of Frozen Passage: The Status of Becoming in the Physical World.” In Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 2, eds., Robert S. Cohen and Marx W. Wartofsky. New York: Humanities Press, 1965, pp. 441-63.

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Chappell, John E. Jr. "Beyond Einstein and Marinov." (unpubl.) (Jan. 1987).

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Ciufolini. I and E. C. Pavlis. "A Confirmation of the General Relativistic Prediction of the Lense-Thirring Effect." Nature 431, no. 7011 (October 21, 2004): 958-960. [abstract]

Ciufolini, Ignazio, federico Chieppa, David Lucchesi and Francesco Vespe.  "Test of Lense-Thirring Shift due to Spin."  Class. Quantum Grav. 14 (1997): 2701-2726. [abstract]

Clayton, Philip. Review of “Theories of Everything: The Quest for Ultimate Explanation,” By John D. Barrow.  Cross Currents: Journal of the Assoc. for Religion and Intellectual Life (Fall 1992): 403-405.

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Desmet, Ronny. "Gary Herstein, Whitehead and the Measurement Problem." Review of Whitehead and the Measurement Problem of Cosmology. Chromatikon II (2006), 245-250.

_____. "How Did Whitehead Become Einstein's Antagonist? On Poincaré and Whitehead." In Process Studies 27, no. 2 (Fall-Winter 2008): 5-23. 

_____. "Minkowski"s Influence on Whitehead" (Spacetime Conference, Montreal, June 2008). (Electronic format).

_____.  "Whitehead and the British Reception of Einstein's Relativity: An Addendum to Victor Lowe's Whitehead Biography." October 2, 2007

Desmet, Ronny and Timothy E. Eastman. "Physics and Relativity." Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought Vol. II. Edited by Michel Weber and Will Desmond. Heusenstamm, Germany: Ontos Verlag, 2008. 235-258. [abstract]

Durand, Guillaume, "Whitehead et Einstein: le problème des relations." Chromatikon II (2006): 61-73.

During, Elie. "Durations and Simultaneities: Temporal Perspectives and Relativistic Time in Whitehead and Bergson." Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought Vol. II. Edited by Michel Weber and Will Desmond. Heusenstamm, Germany: Ontos Verlag, 2008. 259-278. [abstract]

Eastman, Timothy E. Review of Process Physics: From Information Theory to Quantum Space and Matter by Reginald T. Cahill. Process Studies 36, no. 1 (Spring-Summer 2007): 131-33.  

_____. “Second Meeting of the Whitehead Relativity Group.”  (unpubl.)

_____.  “Workshop on Whitehead’s Theory of Relativity.”  (unpubl.)

Ellis, George F. R. “Issues in the Philosophy of Cosmology.” (Unpublished), (Nov. 19, 2005). [abstract]

Finkelstein, David, "Coherence and Possibility: The Logic of the Innermost Universe" The Kenyon Review IV, no. 2 (Spring 1982): 95-112.

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Fitzgerald, Paul.  “Relativity Physics and the God of Process Philosophy.”  Process Studies 2:4 (Winter 1972):  251.

Ford, Lewis S.  “Is Process Theism Compatible with Relativity Theory?”  Journal of Religion 48:2 (April 1968):  124-135.  [abstract]

Fowler, Dean R.  “Disconfirmation of Whitehead’s Relativity Theory--A Critical Reply.”  Process Studies 4:4 (Winter 1974):  288-90.

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_____.  “Whitehead’s Theory of Relativity.”  Process Studies 5:3 (Fall 1975):  159-174. [abstract]

Fraser, J. T. The Genesis and Evolution of Time: A Critique of Interpretation in Physics. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1982. [abstract]

Grabbe, Crockett.  “Whitehead’s Theory of Relativity--History and Analysis.”  (unpubl.)

Griffin, David Ray. “Review: The New Aspects of Time: Its Continuity and Novelities: Selected Papers in the Philosophy of Science, by Milic Capek.”  In Process Studies 27, no.3-4 (Fall-Winter 1998): 345-8.

Gunter, P. A. Y., ed. Bergson and the Evolution of Physics. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1969. [abstract]

Hameroff, Stuart.  "Conscious Events as Orchestrated Space-Time Selections."  Journal of Consciousness Studies 3, vol. 1 (1996): 36-53. [abstract]

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Hiley, B. J.  "Active Information and Teleportation."  in Epistemological and Experimental Perspectives on Quantum Physics, eds. D. Greenberger et al.  Kluwer, Netherlands, 1999. 113-126. [abstract]

Hodgson, Peter E.  “Relativity and Religion:  The Abuse of Einstein’s Theory.”  Zygon 38, no.2 (June 2003): 393-409.  

Hulbert, Steve. "Ronny Desmet: Whitehead and the British Reception of Einstein's Relativity." Process Perspectives: Newsmagazine of the Center for Process Studies 30, no. 2 (Fall 2007): 10. 

Hyman, Andrew T.  “A New Interpretation of Whitehead’s Theory.”  (unpubl.) [abstract]

Laudan, Larry.  “The Unfinished Einsteinian Revolution in Philosophy.”  Progress and its Problems:  Towards a Theory of Scientific Growth.  Berkeley:  University of California Press, 1977, pp. 119-131.

Llewellyn, Robert.  “Whitehead and Newton on Space and Time Structure.” Process Studies 3, no. 4 (Winter 1973): 239-58. [abstract]

Mann, Scott. "Space, Time, and Natural Kinds." Journal of Critical Realism 5, no. 2 (2006): 290-322. [abstract] 

Misner, Charles W., Kip S. Thorne, and John A. Wheeler.  Gravitation.  San Francisco, CA:  W. H. Freeman, 1973, chs. 7, 38-40.

Naser, Curtis R. "Unity, Holism and Emergent Theology: A Reflection on Mendel Sachs 'The Principle of Relativity'." The International Journal for Field-Being 1, no. 1 (2001).

Nicolaidis, Argyris. "Temporalities." World Futures 64 (2008) 109-115. [abstract]

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Nobo, Jorge Luis. Review of Whitehead and the Measurement Problem of Cosmology by Gary L. Herstein Process Studies 37, no. 1 (Spring-Summer 2008): 196-99.  

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Papatheodorou, C. and Basil Hiley. "Process, Temporality and Space-Time." Process Studies 26, nos.3-4 (Fall-Winter 1997): 247-78.

Pon, Wing Y.  “Resolving the Conflict between Process and Absolutism, the Conflicts between Bohr and Einstein.”  (unpubl.)  [abstract]

Reichenbach, Hans. Axiomatization of the Theory of Relativity. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1969. [abstract]

Russell, Robert J.  “Progress Report on Whitehead’s Theory of Gravity.”  (unpubl.)

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_____, and John B. Cobb, Jr.  “Whitehead, Einstein and the Newtonian Legacy.”  Newton and the New Direction in Science, eds., G.V. Coyne, et. al.  The Vatican:  Specola Vaticana, 1988, pp. 175-192.

_____, and Christoph Wassermann.  “A Generalized Whiteheadian Theory of Gravity:  The Kerr Solution.”  (unpubl.)

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Schild, Alfred.  “Equivalence Principle and Red-Shift Measurements.”  American Journal of Physics 28:9 (1960):  778-780.

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Shimony, Abner.  “Quantum Physics and the Philosophy of Whitehead.”  Studies in the Philosophy of Science 2, eds., R. S. Cohen and M. W. Wartofsky.  New York:  Humanities Press, 1965, pp. 307-330.

Stapp, Henry P.  “Bell’s Theorem and the Foundations of Quantum Physics.”  (unpubl.)

Stolz, Joachim.  “Einstein, Whitehead und das Kovarianzprinzip.”  Neue Ralitaten: Herausforderung der Philosophie.  Berlin: Allgemeine Gesellschaft fur Philosophie in Deutschland e.V. in Verbindung mit dem Institut fur Philosophie, 1993.

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Tanaka, Yutaka.  “Bell’s Theorem and the Theory of Relativity--An Interpretation of Quantum Correlation at a Distance Based on the Philosophy of Organism.”  (unpubl.)

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Valenza, Robert J. "Albert Einstein (1879-1955)." Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought Vol. II. Edited by Michel Weber and Will Desmond. Heusenstamm, Germany: Ontos Verlag, 2008. 400-408. [abstract] 

Wassermann, Christoph.  “Physical Foundations of Whitehead’s Philosophy.” [Unpublished, 1988)

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Whitehead, Alfred North.  The Principle of Relativity.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1922.

Wilcox, John T. "A Question from Physics for Certain Theists." The Journal of Religion 41, no. 4 (Oct., 1961): 293-300.

Will, Clifford M.  “The Confrontation Between Gravitation Theory and Experiment.”  General Relativity, eds., S. W. Hawking and W. Israel.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 1979, pp. 24-89.

_____.  “Relativistic Gravity in the Solar System.  III.  Experimental Disproof of a Class of Linear Theories of Gravitation.”  The Astrophysical Journal 185 (Oct. 1, 1973): 31-42.

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_____.  “Theoretical Frameworks for Testing Relativistic Gravity.  III.  Conservation laws, Lorentz Invariance, and Values of the PPN Parameters.”  Astrophysical Journal 169 (Oct. 1, 1971): 125-40.

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