About Synchronisation of Clocks in Free Fall Around a Central Body

dc.creatorGoy, Francois
dc.date1997-07-02
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dc.descriptionThe conventional nature of synchronisation is discussed in inertial frames, where it is found that theories using different synchronisations are experimentally equivalent to special relativity. In contrary, in accelerated systems only a theory maintaining an absolute simultaneity is consistent with the natural behaviour of clocks. The principle of equivalence is discussed, and it is found that any synchronisation can be used locally in a freely falling frame. Whatever the choosen synchronisation, the first derivatives of the metric tensor disapear and a geodesic is locally a straight line. But it is shown that only a synchronisation maintaining an absolute simultaneity allows to define time consistently on circular orbits of a Schwarzschild metric. Key words: special and general relativity, synchronisation, one-way velocity of light, ether, principle of equivalence.
dc.descriptionLatex, 10 pages, No figure, Talk of the Athen's Conference on Relativistic Physics, 25-28 june 1997
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9707005
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9707005
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/35949
dc.subjectGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
dc.titleAbout Synchronisation of Clocks in Free Fall Around a Central Body
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