Menon, Tushar and Linnemann, Niels and Read, James (2018) Clocks and Chronogeometry: Rotating Spacetimes and the relativistic null hypothesis. [Preprint]
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Abstract
Recent work in the physics literature demonstrates that, in particular classes of rotating spacetimes, physical light rays in general do not traverse null geodesics. Having presented this result, we discuss its philosophical significance, both for the clock hypothesis (and, in particular, a recent purported proof thereof for light clocks), and for the operational meaning of the metric field.
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| Keywords: | General relativity, Clock hypothesis, Electromagnetism, Maxwell's Equations | ||||||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Fields and Particles Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory |
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| Depositing User: | Mr Tushar Menon | ||||||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 20 Apr 2018 11:57 | ||||||||||||
| Last Modified: | 20 Apr 2018 11:57 | ||||||||||||
| Item ID: | 14576 | ||||||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Fields and Particles Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory |
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| Date: | April 2018 | ||||||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/14576 |
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