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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