Special Relativity Redux

  CERN's Shrinkage Dance Time marches on at the usual rate in your own reference frame no matter how fast you go. It’s the other guys who have timing issues from your point of view. But it's not that their clocks run any slower or faster than yours. It's just that they have a different perception of simultaneity (because of the vx/c^2 term in the time transform) so they want to start or stop counting at the wrong time. Events in Einstein's philosophy can only be simultaneous in one reference frame so one or the other gets a head start in any other context. You're going to get a different result if you start counting before I depart for example. That's time dilation in a nutshell. There's also a scaling factor, but that's really just a calibration exercise to ensure that you're comparing apples to apples. You're also supposed to maintain your geometry in your own reference frame at cruising speed no matter what you’re made of so the other guys hav...