Spacetime without Reference Frames: An Application to Synchronizations on a Rotating Disk [Book Review]

Foundations of Physics 28 (11):1685-1701 (1998)
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Nonstandard synchronizations of inertial observers in special relativity and synchronizations with respect to a uniformly rotating observer are investigated in a setting which avoids coordinates and transformation rules and so removes some misunderstandings

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Spacetime without Reference Frames: An Application to the Velocity Addition Paradox.T. Matolcsi & A. Goher - 2001 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 32 (1):83-99.

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