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  1. What do light clocks say to us regarding the so-called clock hypothesis?Mario Bacelar Valente - 2018 - Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 33 (3):435-446.
    The clock hypothesis is taken to be an assumption independent of special relativity necessary to describe accelerated clocks. This enables to equate the time read off by a clock to the proper time. Here, it is considered a physical system–the light clock–proposed by Marzke and Wheeler. Recently, Fletcher proved a theorem that shows that a sufficiently small light clock has a time reading that approximates to an arbitrary degree the proper time. The clock hypothesis is not necessary to arrive at (...)
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  • The Conventionality of Simultaneity and Einstein’s Conventionality of Geometry.Mario Bacelar Valente - 2018 - Kairos 20 (1):159-180.
    The conventionality of simultaneity thesis as established by Reichenbach and Grünbaum is related to the partial freedom in the definition of simultaneity in an inertial reference frame. An apparently altogether different issue is that of the conventionality of spatial geometry, or more generally the conventionality of chronogeometry when taking also into account the conventionality of the uniformity of time. Here we will consider Einstein’s version of the conventionality of geometry, according to which we might adopt a different spatial geometry and (...)
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