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    It is not the case that Brown and Pooley's dynamical approach establishes that rods and clocks comportment is explained by Lorentz-covariant dynamical laws, making them legitimate trackers of spacetime geometry.

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    • 1.Lorentz-covariance describes how laws transform, not what spacetime geometry is independent of measurement conventions and operational definitions.
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    • 2.Rod and clock behavior could be explained by competing spacetime geometries equally well if dynamical laws were reformulated in non-Euclidean coordinates.
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    • 3.Showing behavior follows dynamical laws doesn't establish those objects track geometry rather than just coordinate-dependent measurement artifacts.
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    • 1.If physical objects' behavior derives from fundamental Lorentz-covariant laws, their measurements reflect objective spacetime structure rather than convention.
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    • 2.Rods and clocks successfully predict experimental outcomes across frames, demonstrating they reliably track the geometric features they're meant to measure.
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    • 3.Dynamical explanations avoid circular reasoning: spacetime geometry explains rod/clock behavior without presupposing geometry from their measurements.
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