Light clocks and the clock hypothesis

DOI10.1007/S10701-013-9751-3MaRDI QIDQ2015103zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Samuel Craig Fletcher

Publication date 18 June 2014

Published in Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-013-9751-3

zbMATH Keywords

Born rigidclock hypothesisgeneral relativitylight clockworld-function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

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