Dirk mimicked ("the sincerest form of flattery"):
> One cannot understand SR or even Galilean relativity if
> one doesn't even understand the concept of coordinates:
> | "Let the unprimed frame's origin clock read zero when
> | event E1 occurs at t = 0.6 and at x = 1."
> https://home.deds.nl/~dvdm/dirk/Physics/Fumbles/MathProof.html
A mere glance at the site shows that Dirk is simply wrong.
It is easy to see that a the following single picture can
show the entire experiment:
(Note: a clock reading zero is shown as [0].)
Primed Frame x=1
[0]--------------------[-.6]--->
E2 E1
[0]--------------------[+.6]<---
Unprimed Frame x=1
Note that - just as was said - the unprimed frame's origin
clock reads zero as event E1 occurs at t = 0.6 and at x = 1.
All readings and distances are given per the relativistic
transformation equations.
Contrary to Dirk, there is no clock which reads two different
times at once.
--kk--
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