Comment on: “The role of dynamics in the synchronization problem”, by Hans C. Ohanian

American Journal of Physics 73 (2) (2005)
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Abstract

Hans C. Ohanian 1 claims to “defeat” the conventionalist thesis of clock synchronization using an argument based on dynamics. My aim here is to show that his argument does not succeed.

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Conventionality of simultaneity.Allen Janis - 2008 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

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