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The rotating disk: Reply to Grøn

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It is argued that Grøn's criticism of our treatment of the rotating disk in special relativity is incorrect: Our results pertain to an acceleration program different from his but physically no less legitimate.

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  1. Ø. Grøn,Found. Phys. 9, 353 (1979).

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  2. A. Grünbaum and A. I. Janis,Synthèse 34, 281 (1977); reprinted inHans Reichenbach, Logical Empiricist, W. Salmon, ed. (Reidel, Boston, 1979), pp. 321–339.

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  1. Department of Philosophy and Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

    Adolf Grünbaum

  2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

    Allen I. Janis

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  1. Adolf Grünbaum
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Research supported in part by the National Science Foundation.

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Grünbaum, A., Janis, A.I. The rotating disk: Reply to Grøn. Found Phys 10, 495–498 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00708745

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