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We introduce graphic representation of the Lorentz coordinate transformation. The consistency of time dilation with LT is illustrated, and we show: (1) The time difference between events depends on the observer’s frame of reference; (2) A traveling clock always ticks slower in its rest-frame compared to any laboratory clock; this is called time dilation; (3) For two events temporal simultaneity can only occur in one particular observer reference frame.
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In original (see Ref. [18]): “L’intervalle de temps entre deux événements qui coincident dans l’espace, qui se succèdent en un même point pour un certain système de référence, est moindre pour celui-ci que pour tout autre en translation uniforme quelconque par rapport au premier.”
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Rafelski, J. (2022). Time Measurement and Lorentz Coordinate Transformations. In: Modern Special Relativity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54352-5_8
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