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View SchemaUniformly moving clocks in special relativity: Time dilatation, but no relativity of simultaneity or length contraction
| Authors | J. H. Field |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0603135 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0603135 |
| License | http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/ |
Abstract
Time-like and space-like invariant space-time intervals are used to analyse measurements of spatial and temporal distances defined by two spatially-separated clocks. The time dilatation effect is confirmed, but not `relativity of simultaneity' or `relativistic length contraction'. How these latter, spurious, effects arise from misuse of the Lorentz transformation is also explained.
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