Abstract
Cannon and Jensen assert that data from different national time laboratories give a test of the interaction interpretation of special relativity theory. That interpretation is to be applied, however, to clocks in relative uniform motion, and therefore is not tested by the time-rate effects associated with different terrestrial locations of clocks. Those effects are described by the general theory of relativity, and arise with differences in gravitational potential and state of circular motion of the clocks. An argument by the authors against invariance of entropy clocks, on grounds of neglect of relativity of simultaneity, is also criticized.
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Schlegel, R. Interaction, not gravitation. Found Phys 6, 435–438 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00715032
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00715032