Uniformly moving clocks in special relativity: Time dilatation, but no relativity of simultaneity or length contraction
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.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- March 2006
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.physics/0603135
- arXiv:
- arXiv:physics/0603135
- Bibcode:
- 2006physics...3135F
- Keywords:
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- Physics - General Physics
- E-Print:
- 5 pages, no tables, no figures. See also physics/0501043 and physics/0601131. v2 improved presentation, 4 new references, conclusions unchanged. v3 typos removed, notation improved, 2 new references. v4 improved notation, added reference. v5 typos removed, text additions. v6 calculation corrected in Added Note, references updated. v7 typo corrected