1 v 3 6 J an 1 99 5 Critique of proposed limit to space – time measurement , based on Wigner ’ s clocks and mirrors
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Based on a relation between inertial time intervals and the Rie-mannian curvature, we show that space–time uncertainty derived by Ng and van Dam implies absurd uncertainties of the Riemannian curvature .
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