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IN a letter to NATURE, Prof. Synge has pointed out1 that the condition of equivalence of two distant particle-observers does not completely define the time-scale of either, and that any two distant particle-observers may be provided with clocks which satisfy the condition of equivalence and make the relative velocity of the two equal to zero. Synge concludes that the relativistic theories developed by Milne and by me fail to dispense with both the concept of rigid bodies and the concept of absolute clocks.
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PAGE, L. Equivalent Particle-Observers. Nature 139, 111 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139111a0
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