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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…
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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…
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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…