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-flatness and its natural extension
Henrique Gomes
What, if anything, makes Minkowski spacetime a privileged local reference geometry in General Relativity? Recent work by \cite{WeatherallFletcher} argues: nothing. In response, I p…
Gauge Matters More Than Curvature
Henrique Gomes, Bryan W Roberts
Recent orthodoxy, which we call Curvature Fundamentalism, posits that the field strength on spacetime exhausts the physically significant content of electromagnetism, at least…
Boomeranging through the Earth: when free fall doesn't maximize proper time
Henrique Gomes
In teaching special relativity, John Bell emphasised the value of pre-relativistic intuitions. His famous spaceship puzzle showed that, in certain cases, the older heuristics of Lo…
On the analogies between gravitational and electromagnetic radiative energy
Henrique Gomes, Carlo Rovelli
We give a conceptual exposition of aspects of gravitational radiation, especially in relation to energy. Our motive for doing so is that the strong analogies with electromagnetic r…
The Hole Argument and Beyond, Part II: Treating Non-isomorphic Spacetimes
Henrique Gomes, Jeremy Butterfield
In this two-part paper we review, and then develop, the assessment of the hole argument for general relativity. The review (in Part I) discussed how to compare points in isomorphic…
The Hole Argument and Beyond, Part I: The Story so Far
Henrique Gomes, Jeremy Butterfield
In this two-part paper, we review, and then develop, the assessment of the hole argument for general relativity. This first Part reviews the literature hitherto, focussing on the p…