Re: Lorentz transformations - a derivation

From: jem (xxx_at_xxx.xxx)
Date: 01/09/05 

Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 09:31:05 -0500

Bilge wrote:
> jem:
> >Bill Hobba wrote:
> >> "jem" <xxx@xxx.xxx> wrote in message
> >> news:sdSDd.25692$Q%4.10400@fed1read06...
> >
> >>>Remember this proposed definition? An inertial reference frame is a
> >>>reference frame in which all stationary standard clocks tick at the same
> >>>rate.
> >>
> >>
> >> How do you sync those clocks?
> >
> >It's not necessary to synchronize clocks in order to compare their tick
> >rates.
>
> Synchronizing clocks _is_ comparing their tick rates.
>

Not hardly. Synchronizing 2 clocks means setting them so that exactly
one tick on each occurs simultaneously. Whether the clocks tick at the
same rate can only be determined by testing whether subsequent clock
ticks also occur simultaneously.

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