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The Nature of Time

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IN a recent article, entitled “The Relativity of Time”, Prof. Herbert Dingle1 discussed what constitutes a clock, and he used the discussion to support a thesis which he stated at the outset, namely, that the restricted theory of relativity does not imply a Fitzgerald contraction of time intervals.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Alberta, Edmonton

    J. W. CAMPBELL

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CAMPBELL, J. The Nature of Time. Nature 145, 426–427 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145426a0

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