From: tjroberts137@sbcglobal.net   
      
   On 4/2/22 12:51 PM, Mike Fontenot wrote:   
   > On 4/2/22 12:22 AM, Tom Roberts wrote:   
   >> You simply implemented the CONVENTION of Einstein synchronization.   
   >> If you synchronized the clocks differently you would get a   
   >> different result.   
   >   
   > If you synchronized those clocks differently, you would be ignoring   
   > the fundamental assumption that special relativity is based on: that   
   > the speed of light in any inertial frame is always equal to the   
   > universal constant "c".   
      
   As you say, that assumption of SR applies in any INERTIAL FRAME. But if   
   one synchronized those clocks differently, they would not yield the time   
   coordinate of an inertial frame, so the assumptions of SR simply would   
   not apply, and can be ignored.   
      
       [Don't ask me why anyone would do that, I'm merely pointing   
        out that it is possible. The usual Einstein synchronization   
        is used because it simplifies the math. As I said before:   
        Don't confuse an ordinary human desire for simplicity   
        (laziness) with anything more profound.]   
      
   Tom Roberts   
      
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