A modest remark about Reichenbach, rotation, and general relativity

Philosophy of Science 52 (4):615-620 (1985)
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An interesting difficulty arises if one tries to reconcile Reichenbach's views about "absolute" rotation in general relativity with his commitment to a "causal theory of space-time structure." This difficulty is made precise in the form of a simple theorem about relativistic space-time geometry

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