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XXV.—Axiomatic Treatment of Kinematical Relativity: A Reply to Dr G. C. McVittie

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2012

G. J. Whitrow
Affiliation:
Christ Church, Oxford

Extract

In his recent article McVittie has criticised in most disparaging terms the analytical theory of time-keeping developed by Milne and myself in the last ten years. Milne has replied at length (see preceding paper), and it is my purpose in this note merely to touch on one or two points which he has not covered.

However, before doing so, I should like to take this opportunity of remarking that the “Kinematical Relativity,” about which McVittie has written, both in his recent article and in his monograph, “Cosmological Theory,” is not the Kinematical Relativity of Milne and myself, but is something much slighter, based, perhaps, on an incomplete understanding of the nature of the kinematical theory.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1943

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