Spatially-separated synchronised clocks in the same inertial frame: Time dilatation, but no relativity of simultaneity or length contraction

Abstract

The Lorentz transformation is used to analyse space and time coordinates corresponding to two spatially-separated clocks in the same inertial frame. The time dilatation effect is confirmed, but not `relativity of simultaneity' or `relativistic length contraction'. How these latter, spurious, effects arise from misuse of the Lorentz transformation is also explained.

3 pages, no figures, no tables. Replaces physics/0603135 which had the same conclusions but an erroneous calculation of length intervals. v2 typo in Eq.(4) corrected

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