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Reference Fluids as Standards of Space and Time
David Brown
The idea that spacetime points are to be identified by a fleet of clock--carrying particles can be traced to the earliest days of general relativity. Such a fleet of clocks can be…
gr-qc1994
Black Hole Thermodynamics in a Box
David Brown
Simple calculations indicate that the partition function for a black hole is defined only if the temperature is fixed on a finite boundary. Consequences of this result are discusse…