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Portrait of Dmitry Mirimanoff Dmitry Mirimanoff The Lorentz-Einstein transformation and the universal time of Ed…

If the contraction does not take place by adopting time of an Einstein system, this system is the median system.
3. Another relation. Let P be a point of the abscissas and in and . There, by replacing parameter by its expression as function of and in the first formula (1) , it is given
by virtue of (3) .
4. The universal time of Guillaume. Let be an arbitrary function of . As is const., is constant. Suppose and put . If we adopt time instead of Einstein time , simultaneity is not altered. Equality (4) remains true, therefore no contraction, equality (5) is written .
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Portrait of Dmitry Mirimanoff Dmitry Mirimanoff The Lorentz-Einstein transformation and the universal time of Ed…

We come, as seen, to the equation that defines the universal time of Guillaume [2] . Therefore the time defined by is the parameter of Guillaume. It only differs from time of the median system by the constant factor .
5. Case of three systems. Imagine three systems conducting a uniform translatory movement parallel to the axes of . Let be the relative velocity of with respect to , of with respect , of with respect , and the parameters of Guillaume. Then we have in virtue of (6)
for example, the abscissa of is given by , that of by .
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