Knox, Eleanor (2009) Flavour-Oscillation Clocks and the Geometricity of General Relativity. [Preprint]

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I look at the ‘flavour-oscillation clocks’ proposed by D.V. Ahluwalia, and two arguments of his suggesting that such clocks might behave in a way that threatens the geometricity of general relativity (GR). The first argument states that the behaviour of these clocks in the vicinity of a rotating gravitational source implies a non-geometric element of gravity. I argue that the phenomenon is best seen as an instance of violation of the ‘clock hypothesis’, and therefore does not threaten the geometrical nature of gravitation. Ahluwalia’s second argument, for the ‘incompleteness’ of general relativity, involves the idea that flavour-oscillation clocks can detect constant gravitational potentials. I argue that the purported ‘incompleteness-establishing’ result is in fact one that applies to all clocks. It is entirely derivable from GR, does not result in the observability of the potential, and is not at odds with any of GR’s foundations.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Knox, Eleanor
Keywords:	general relativity, geometry, clocks, space-time
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics
Depositing User:	Dr Eleanor Knox
Date Deposited:	09 Oct 2009
Last Modified:	07 Oct 2010 15:18
Item ID:	4938
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics
Date:	September 2009
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/4938

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