4 papers
Apples Falling, Buckets Rolling, and Why Inertia Keeps Trolling: Inertial Motion is Not Natural Motion
Nicola Bamonti
Inertia has long been treated as the paradigm of natural motion. This paper challenges this identification through the lens of General Relativity. Drawing on Norton (2012)'s distin…
The Hole Argument for Reference Frames
Nicola Bamonti, Henrique Gomes
We exploit the results of Bamonti and Gomes (2024) concerning the dynamical (un)coupling of reference frames to gravity to analyse the role of reference frames in the Hole Argument…
In Search of Cosmic Time: Complete Observables and the Clock Hypothesis
Nicola Bamonti, Karim P. Y. Thébault
This paper considers a new and deeply challenging face of the problem of time in the context of cosmology drawing on the work of Thiemann (2006, 2007). Thiemann argues for a radica…
What Reference Frames Teach Us. Part I: About Symmetry Principles and Observability
Nicola Bamonti, Henrique Gomes
This paper is an exploration of the nuanced realm of reference frames within the framework of General Relativity. Our analysis exposes a violation of Earman's SP1 principle in scen…