Abstract
Nonstandard synchronizations of inertial observers in special relativity and synchronizations with respect to a uniformly rotating observer are investigated in a setting which avoids coordinates and transformation rules and so removes some misunderstandings.
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Matolcsi, T. Spacetime without Reference Frames: An Application to Synchronizations on a Rotating Disk. Foundations of Physics 28, 1685–1701 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018845726529
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