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Simultaneousness of events and rates of clocks, p.71-74.

The flow of time has no significance in the logically fixed pattern of events demanded by deterministic theory, time being a mere coordinate. In a theory with indeterminacy, however, the passage of time transforms statistical expectation into real events.

The writer contends that the problem posed by the clock paradox of relativity is essentially one of the comparison of different motions, and the part of physics that is principally concerned with this kind of question is the theory of relativity, the special and the general. Brief reference is made to the character of each part, and the extent which we have to make use of it. Various illustrations and tables are utilized to explain facts.

The article concludes with the statement that "there is no clock 'paradox' since it is not paradoxical for two persons with different experiences to find that the consequences of their experiences differ. There is simply the result that high-speed travel makes the route dependence of time reckoning evident, whereas low-speed travel does not."

In German. Not examined.

In Russian. Not examined.

Translated title: On space, time and relativity.

The basic equations of a new space-time representation are derived in an heuristic fashion, and a simple application is presented to illustrate the point of view.