Bacelar Valente, Mario (2017) Einstein's physical geometry and the Minkowski spacetime. [Preprint]

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In Einstein’s physical geometry, the geometry of space and the uniformity of time are taken to be non-conventional. However, due to the stipulation of the isotropy of the one-way speed of light in the synchronization of clocks (or definition of simultaneity), as it stands, Einstein’s views do not seem to apply to the whole of the Minkowski space-time. In this work we will see how Einstein’s views can be applied to the Minkowski space-time. In this way, when adopting Einstein’s views, chronogeometry is a physical chronogeometry.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Bacelar Valente, Mario
Keywords:	physical geometry; conventionality of geometry; conventionality of simultaneity; Minkowski space-time; synchronization of clocks
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory
Depositing User:	mario bacelar valente
Date Deposited:	04 Feb 2017 15:57
Last Modified:	04 Feb 2017 15:57
Item ID:	12792
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory
Date:	3 February 2017
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/12792

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