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Consideration of a rotating ring sheds light upon the problem of the rotating disk recently discussed in Nature by several authors and shows the disk problem to be more difficult than it appears.
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McCREA, W. Rotating Relativistic Ring. Nature 234, 399–401 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/234399a0
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