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Einstein’s physical chronogeometry

  • Mario Bacelar Valente

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/0100-6045.2017.v40n1.mv
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 40, no. 1
pp. 241 – 278

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ABSTRACT 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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