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Derivation of the Lorentz transformation in Minkowski spacetime diagrams:

The ##x'## axis rotates counter-clockwise (hyperbolic rotation of the coordinate system), see https://www.geogebra.org/m/NnrRvA46 Also, the scales of the ##ct'## and ##x'## axes change with velocity. This keeps the speed of light in vacuum (45° world-line) the same in both coordinate systems.

The usual light clock does not contain sources of light located on a flat inclined surface. Both mirrors are oriented horizontally. I calculated an approximation for a small angle in posting #18 of the old thread. You should also use the full Lorentz transformation, to account for the...

This doesn't exist. But you can for example approximate locally a (small) segment of a spherical wave-front by a plane, because the surface of a sphere is locally flat. Garbage in -> garbage out (see above) To understand why the light clock works, you need to understand the following key...

Yes. In this case, the cross product must be replaced by the wedge product. ##\mathbf L = \mathbf r \wedge \mathbf p##

They try to avoid the use of thrusters and use control moment gyroscopes most of the time, to not disturbe micro-gravity experiments. Source: https://www.quora.com/How-does-the-ISS-keep-its-orientation/answer/Robert-Frost-1?ch=99&oid=42053686&share=6bbd3c52&srid=5Gqkk&target_type=answer

The gyroscope in the video is spinning about it's axis (even while it's housing is not spinning), but it is difficult to see. How this specific gyroscope works, can be seen in the video from 01:20 on:

It's the ISS, which rotated, not the gyroscope axis: Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2017/10/03/how-does-the-iss-travel-around-the-earth/

In theses notes is also mentioned, that Johann Georg von Soldner calculated the gravitational deflection of light as it passes the sun. He did this in 1801 (published in 1804), based on Newton's theory...

The explanation of aberration in the light-clock scenario does not only work with classical particles, but also with EM waves. The reason is relativity of simultaneity. Assume, a horizontal electromagnetic wavefront segment of vertically moving light crosses the horizontal x-axis. In the...

Do you mean the case ##v=0##? You get ##2\arccos{} 0= \pi##, but not ##2\pi##. It seems that you want to describe the headlight effect. https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/TheHeadlightEffect/

In the restframe of the train, the bridge-length maybe even smaller than the train-length due to length contraction, if the bridge moves fast enough in the train's rest-frame. Your scenario has some similarities to the "length contraction paradox", published in 1961 by W. Rindler...

The crater depth will not be different.

A change in kinetic energy is ##\int \vec F \cdot d\vec s##. A force to decelerate the moving body by mechanical contact is in the end an electric force on a moving charge. But the time-component of the 4-current (charge density) depends on the clock synchronization, therefore also the electric...

I think this must be multiplied with ##m## to get the four-momentum.