Clock rates, clock settings and the physics of the space-time Lorentz transformation

Details Clock rates, clock settings and the physics of the space-time Lorentz transformation Clock rates, clock settings and the physics of the space-time Lorentz transformation

2006-06-12

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0606101v4

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General Physics

7 pages, no figures, no tables. This paper replaces physics/0601131. The same material is presented in a hopefully more transp

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A careful study is made of the operational meaning of the time symbols appearing in the space-time Lorentz transformation. Four distinct symbols, with different physical meanings, are needed to describe reciprocal measurements involving stationary and uniformly-moving clocks. Physical predictions concern only the observed rate of a clock as a function of its relative speed, not its setting. How the failure to make this distinction leads to the conventional predictions of spurious `relativity of simultaneity' and `length contraction' effects in special relativity is explained.

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