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The experimental (apparent) space-time transformations connect coordinates altered by length contraction and clock retardation. When clocks are synchronized by means of light signals (Einstein–Poincaré procedure) or by slow clock transport, the experimental space-time. transformations assume the mathematical form of the “Extended space-time transformations”.(4) These reduce to the Lorentz–Poincaré transformations when one of the frames they connect is the fundamental inertial frame. If the synchronization procedure were perfect, the experimental space-time transformations would assume the form of Selleri’s inertial transformations.(5) The real space-time transformations are those which are disclosed when the systematic measurement distortions are corrected.
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Levy, J. Experimental and Real Coordinates in Space-Time Transformations. Found Phys 34, 1905–1922 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-004-1626-1
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