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XVII.—The Regraduation of Clocks in Spherically Symmetric Space-times of General Relativity.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2012

Summary

The changes in his description of events brought about by an arbitrary regraduation of an observer's clock are examined, taking the axioms of general relativity as fundamental. It is shown that regraduation does not imply a change from one Riemannian space-time to another but merely a coordinate transformation within space-time. A generalisation of the “dynamical time” of kinematical relativity is a by-product of the investigation.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1946

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