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There are in space charged particles, ions and photons of X and γ rays, with energies that may sometimes reach very large values.
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The reader may have noticed that we referred to the (one) clock of Ο′ when this is observed by Ο, but to the (many) clocks in his own frame of reference. The same holds in the symmetrical case when Ο′ is making the observations. The reason is a simple one: for each of the observers, all the clocks of his own frame of reference remain synchronized, while the clocks at various points of the frame that is moving relative to him appear to him not to be synchronized, even when they are synchronized in their own frame of reference (Example 3.7).
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Christodoulides, C. (2016). Applications of Relativistic Kinematics. In: The Special Theory of Relativity. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25274-2_4
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