On the Concept of Regraduation in General Relativity

Abstract

An attempt is made to develop a theory of regraduation of scales and clocks in the general theory of relativity as one of methodological approaches to examine the interrelationship between space-time and gravitation. The relation between the orthodox formalism of general relativity and its reinterpretations based on the flat space-time is made clear, and the problem of a particular (“conformal”) regraduation is investigated in detail.