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Time on a rotating platform

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Traditional clock synchronisation on a rotating platform is shown to be incompatible with the experimentally established transformation of time. The latter transformation leads directly to solve this problem through noninvariant one-way speed of light. The conventionality of some features of relativity theory allows full compatibility with existing experimental evidence.

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  1. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Bari, Via Amendola 173, 1-70126, Bari, Italy

    F. Goy

  2. Dipartimento di Fisica INFN - Sezione di Bari, Università di Bari, Via Amendola 173, 1-70126, Bari, Italy

    F. Selleri

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Goy, F., Selleri, F. Time on a rotating platform. Found Phys Lett 10, 17–29 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02764117

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