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It is shown that the principle of the constancy of the speed of light holds in an arbitrary accelerated reference system in the presence, and absence, of a gravitational field. An explanation is given of the Sagnac experiment, based on the c=const law, which removes the contradiction between this law and the assumption that a privileged reference system exists.
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 4, pp. 72–76, April, 1975.
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Kiriya, V.S. Constancy of the speed of light in the general theory of relativity. Soviet Physics Journal 18, 499–502 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01093240
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01093240