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this? To be able to determine the time coordinates of an event, we would have to
position a clock at every position and start them all at the same moment in time. We
would thus have to synchronise the clocks after having distributed them. How this
is achieved has been generally discussed in Chap. 2. Is it possible to spare ourselves
the tiresome procedure by starting all of the clocks at the same location and then
distributing them? Do the spread clocks still not tick synchronously? This question
will be answered in the following chapter.
Let us keep the following in mind:
The kink, with its unit of length L o and the breather clock, with its unit of time T o gives
us the primary units of measurement, with which we can measure all distances and time
differences and thus the motion processes in our continuum.