{"id":258970,"date":"2016-08-10T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=38082b4a5d658ce7f2afcf64f0d1da68"},"modified":"2016-08-10T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T23:00:00","slug":"symmetry-of-the-lorentz-boost-the-relativity-of-colocality-and-lorentz-time-contraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=258970","title":{"rendered":"Symmetry of the Lorentz boost: the relativity of colocality and Lorentz time contraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the Lorentz boost is symmetric under exchange of x and ct , special relativistic phenomena<br \/>\nwill also manifest this symmetry. Firstly, simultaneity becomes paired with \u2018colocality\u2019 (\u2018at the<br \/>\nsame place\u2019), and the \u2018Relativity of Colocality\u2019 becomes the dual to the well-known \u2018Relativity of<br \/>\nSimultaneity\u2019. Further, Lorentz time contraction arises from reversal of the observation conditions<br \/>\npertaining to time dilation, expressible figuratively as \u2018 Moving clocks run slow, but moving time<br \/>\nruns fast \u2019. Symmetry also dictates that the most fundamental observational modes are: (1) the<br \/>\nsimultaneous observation of length, a process involving both the relativity of simultaneity and<br \/>\nlength contraction; and (2) the colocal measurement of duration, involving both the relativity of<br \/>\ncolocality and time contraction. Only the first of these modes is well known. The adoption of this<br \/>\nsymmetrical lexicon provides a necessary logical basis for interpretational studies of observa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the Lorentz boost is symmetric under exchange of x and ct , special relativistic phenomena<br \/>\nwill also manifest this symmetry. Firstly, simultaneity becomes paired with \u2018colocality\u2019 (\u2018at the<br \/>\nsame place\u2019), and the \u2018Relativity of Colocali&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-258970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=258970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}