[ontolog-forum] Looking for some pragmatic guidance on modeling relativi

["Steve Ray (CMU)" <steve.ray@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I have been watching the discussion about Endurantism and Perdurantism with some caution over the past weeks, but I’m at last driven to ask a simple, pragmatic question:

 

Can anyone recommend an ontology that I could build on that handles relativistic time – specifically I’m talking about general relativity, not special relativity, meaning that I am concerned with capturing events involving clocks that are ticking at different rates (orbiting GPS clocks tick more slowly than similar clocks on earth’s surface, and a signal traveling from a GPS clock to earth moves from one time frame to the other). It’s bad enough to have to worry about assertions that extend over finite spans of time, but I need to think about who’s time frame I’m talking about.

 

Has anybody defined such an ontology?

 

 

- Steve

 

Steven R. Ray, Ph.D.

Distinguished Research Fellow

Carnegie Mellon University

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Skype: steverayconsulting

 

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