# Synchronization in Uniformly Accelerated Frames

**Authors:** Tzvi Scarr

arXiv: 1901.03971 · 2019-01-15

## TL;DR

This paper demonstrates that uniform acceleration allows for consistent clock synchronization within the system, including rotating disks, challenging the traditional belief that synchronization is impossible due to time gaps.

## Contribution

It establishes a precise condition for uniform acceleration based on clock synchronization and shows synchronization is feasible in rotating systems.

## Key findings

- Uniform acceleration systems can have synchronized clocks.
- Synchronization persists as long as acceleration remains uniform.
- Rotating disks with constant angular velocity can be synchronized.

## Abstract

We show that a system is uniformly accelerated if and only if all of the clocks in the system can be synchronized to each other, and the clocks will remain synchronized as long as the acceleration remains uniform. In particular, it is possible to synchronize clocks on a disk rotating with constant angular velocity. Conventional thinking holds that this is impossible because a time gap invariably arises.

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