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Thanks very much for the response. I'm going to have to think about that.

Thanks for replying. But even so, wouldn't the effect be the same at both the front and back of the train--with the net result that the clocks would be tripped "simultaneously," and thereby "synchronized?"

I'm trying to understand the relativity train thought experiment. One of the key concepts seems to be that the clocks at the front and back of the train are "synchronized" such that the clock at the front of the train is running slightly behind the clock at the back of the train (as seen by an...