Authors: Per Hokstad
The special theory of relativity (STR) describes the time dilation between two reference frames moving relative to each other at a constant speed. The Lorentz transformation provides the magnitude of this time dilation. The present work focuses on the fact that the time observed on the ‘other’ system will depend on the location of the clocks used for time comparisons, and we refer to positional (location specific) time. The paper points to the various ‘observational principles’, i.e. the specification of which clocks to apply, and we present a unified framework for these principles. It is argued that the total picture of the observed time dilations is more informative than the usual approach of focusing on one specific expression for time dilation, apparently based on a specific observational principle and a somewhat arbitrary definition of simultaneity. The motivation of the paper is to challenge the current narrative regarding time dilation occurring under the conditions of the STR.
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