VADIM N MATVEEV

We will visualize a thin rod of proper length, \(L\), at two points, \(a\) and \(b\), on which synchronously running clocks, \(A\) and \(B\), are installed at a distance of \(d\) from one another... We will call the arrangement that consists of this rod and the two running clocks, \(A\) and \(B\), situated on it rod, \(R\); i.e., clocks \(A\) and \(B\) will be regarded as integral parts of rod \(R\), and we will treat the readings of clocks \(A\) and \(B\) as characteristic attributes of rod \... In accordance with inverse Lorentz transformations , at a moment in time of \(t'\) of the \(K'\) system, the readings,\(\tau_{A,t'}\) and \(\tau_{B,t'}\), of clocks \(A\) and \(B\), which are in agreement with the readings of the \(K^0\) system's clocks, are determined by the relations