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Clocks and chronogeometry : Rotating spacetimes and the relativistic null hypothesis
Menon, Tushar Linnemann, Niels Read, James
Menon, Tushar
Linnemann, Niels
Read, James
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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2020
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Journal article
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The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
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71
Issue
4
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1287-1317
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Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry
Faculty of Theology and Philosophy
Faculty of Theology and Philosophy
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