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    Challenges→Einstein's original objection to Weyl's theory disappears when the factor -i is inserted, because the two clocks return with different phases rather than different scales, and phase differences do not influence rates of time-keeping.

    In Einstein's Gedankenexperiment, two clocks travel different paths and are compared upon return.

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    Apparently no one had, after 1929, relooked at Einstein’s objection until I did in 1983. The result is interesting and deserves perhaps to be a footnote in the history of science: Let us take Einstein’s Gedankenexperiment …. When the two clocks come back, because of the insertion of the factor \(-i\), they would not have different scales but different phases. That would not influence their rates of time-keeping. Therefore, Einstein’s original objection disappears. But you can ask a further

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