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Body Properties and Lorentz Coordinate Transformations

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We introduce graphic representation of the Lorentz coordinate transformations and show: 1) The time difference between events to be dependent on the observer’s frame of reference; 2) Temporal simultaneity in a reference frame is a unique measurement prescription of two events; 3) A clock not moving in space ticks slower compared to any clock in motion; the effect we already called time dilation. We describe the consistency with the Lorentz coordinate transformation.

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Rafelski, J. (2017). Body Properties and Lorentz Coordinate Transformations. In: Relativity Matters. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51231-0_8

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