Frank Wappler<p>Heads-up! to <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.12209" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arxiv.org/abs/2302.12209</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>"How to detect the spacetime curvature without rulers and <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Clocks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Clocks</span></a>"<br>(A. V. Nenashev, S. D. Baranovskii)</p><p> -- which investigates the question (p. 2)<br> "Is it possible to figure out that a spacetime [region] is curved [instead conformally flat] by testing <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/CausalRelations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CausalRelations</span></a> only ?"</p><p> -- and provides proof of a positive answer through a criterion in terms of causal relations among any set of eight <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/events" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>events</span></a> (<a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/StitchConfiguration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StitchConfiguration</span></a>).</p><p>Closely related is the question<br>"Is it possible to figure out whether two (or more) participants are sitting still wrt. each other in a flat region (or whatever is equivalent in a conformally flat region) by testing causal relations only ?",</p><p>(referring to the notion of <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/InertialFrame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InertialFrame</span></a> in the sense of W. Rindler as "set of point particles sitting still wrt. each other"; cmp. <a href="http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Special_relativity:_kinematics" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">scholarpedia.org/article/Speci</span><span class="invisible">al_relativity:_kinematics</span></a>),</p><p> -- which is presumably solved by <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/tetrahedral" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tetrahedral</span></a>-octahedral <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/PingCoincidenceLattices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PingCoincidenceLattices</span></a>, closely related to <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/OctetTruss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OctetTruss</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/PingCoincidenceLattices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PingCoincidenceLattices</span></a>; see e.g. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrahedral-octahedral_honeycomb" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrahed</span><span class="invisible">ral-octahedral_honeycomb</span></a> and <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%22octet+truss%22&tbm=isch&prmd=ivnbz" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">google.com/search?q=%22octet+t</span><span class="invisible">russ%22&tbm=isch&prmd=ivnbz</span></a></p><p> -- and where, notably, eight events in one particular variant of the <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/StitchConfiguration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StitchConfiguration</span></a> do indeed occur as integral part of those mentioned <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/PingCoincidenceLattices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PingCoincidenceLattices</span></a> (namely, not surprisingly, depicted as <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Octahedra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Octahedra</span></a> in the familiar drawings of the corresponding "plain 3D" lattices).</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Relativity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Relativity</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Spacetime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Spacetime</span></a></p>