Afriat, Alexander (2018) Franco Selleri and the rotating disk. [Preprint]

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Abstract

I concentrate on the \emph{pars destruens}, rather than the \emph{pars construens}, of Selleri's work on the Sagnac effect. He speaks (2003) of the ``impossibilità di spiegare la fisica sulla piattaforma ruotante con la TRS,'' and may have a point. By confining our attention to the world-cylinder above a circle on the disk we avoid broader integrability issues that just cause confusion. A rate of rotation foliates the cylinder into timelike spirals, and also into the simultaneity spirals hyperbolically orthogonal to them; together the two foliations give rise to all sorts of temporal absurdities.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Afriat, Alexander
Keywords:	Sagnac, Selleri, Einstein, relativity, rotation, time
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory
Depositing User:	Alexander Afriat
Date Deposited:	26 Aug 2018 14:46
Last Modified:	26 Aug 2018 14:46
Item ID:	14976
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory
Date:	26 August 2018
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/14976

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