SPATIAL MEASURES IN SPECIAL RELATIVITY DO NOT EMPIRICALLY DETERMINE SIMULTANEITY RELATIONS - A REPLY TO COLEMAN AND KORTE

Coleman and Korte have restated and defended an earlier attempt to ref ute the traditional thesis of the conventionality of simultaneity with in special relativity. Here we argue their attempt still fails and res pond to criticisms of a paper in which we addressed the inadequacies o f their earlier paper. The spatial criterion they use to argue for sta ndard synchronization throughout an inertial frame is merely a definit ion and provides no demonstration that a unique distant simultaneity r elation exists in nature.