Light clocks and the clock hypothesis

DOI10.1007/S10701-013-9751-3zbMATH Open1291.83172OpenAlexW2135005879MaRDI QIDQ2015103FDOQ2015103

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

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zbMATH Keywords

general relativityworld-functionBorn rigidclock hypothesislight clock

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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