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| author | Cudd, Darren |
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| contents | <p>This paper identifies the physical constraint underlying Einstein’s elimination of non-operational spacetime structures in the development of relativity. It shows that only distinctions enforceable through physical interaction with clocks, rods, and signals can be admitted as real in a physical theory. Absolute simultaneity, absolute space, and non-operational frames fail this test because no physical measurement procedure can isolate them. Spacetime geometry, in contrast, survives as what remains after all non-operational structures have been removed — a residue of enforceable physical constraints on signal propagation and causal order. The paper thereby clarifies Einstein’s methodological move as an elimination by necessity grounded in enforcement of operational meaning.</p> |
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| publishDate | 2026 |
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| spellingShingle | EINSTEIN AND THE CONSTRAINT OF OPERATIONAL MEANING A FOUNDATIONAL CLARIFICATION OF PHYSICAL ADMISSIBILITY Cudd, Darren operational meaning Foundations of Relativity <p>This paper identifies the physical constraint underlying Einstein’s elimination of non-operational spacetime structures in the development of relativity. It shows that only distinctions enforceable through physical interaction with clocks, rods, and signals can be admitted as real in a physical theory. Absolute simultaneity, absolute space, and non-operational frames fail this test because no physical measurement procedure can isolate them. Spacetime geometry, in contrast, survives as what remains after all non-operational structures have been removed — a residue of enforceable physical constraints on signal propagation and causal order. The paper thereby clarifies Einstein’s methodological move as an elimination by necessity grounded in enforcement of operational meaning.</p> |
| title | EINSTEIN AND THE CONSTRAINT OF OPERATIONAL MEANING A FOUNDATIONAL CLARIFICATION OF PHYSICAL ADMISSIBILITY |
| topic | operational meaning Foundations of Relativity |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18216595 |