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The “Light Clocks” Thought Experiment and the “Fake” Lorentz Transformations

( Vol-4,Issue-9,September 2017 ) OPEN ACCESS
Author(s):

Carmine Cataldo

Keywords:

Lorentz Transformations, Special Relativity, Light Clocks, Absoluteness of Time.

Abstract:

In this paper an alternative version of the well-known “light clocks” experiment is discussed. The so-called Lorentz transformations, backbone of the Special Relativity theory, are herein deduced by resorting to the above-mentioned experiment, albeit with a different meaning. Time dilation and length contraction are not considered as being real phenomena. Time, in fact, is peremptorily postulated as being absolute. Nonetheless, this strong assumption does not imply that instruments and devices of whatever kind, finalized to measure time, are not influenced by motion. In particular, although the “light clock” in the mobile frame ticks, so to say, more slowly than the one at rest, it can be easily shown how no time dilation actually occurs. The apparent length contraction is considered as being nothing but a banal consequence of a deceptive time measurement.

ijaers doi crossref DOI:

10.22161/ijaers.4.9.3

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