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Thank you guys. I will review the calculations and plot them in the spacetime diagram.

I just wanted to see why it gets to the back of the wagon first from the ground reference. I calculated the difference in time (as Wiki article says it arrives first). I got tCA=b'/2/(c+v) and tCB=b'/2/(c-v) so I can understand the Wiki example... v=velocity of the wagon.

Thank you ghwellsjr . I found it already and it's interesting. But the relativity of simultaneity differs mainly by the factors (c+v) and (c-v) that account for the difference in sequence of events (that from the ground it hits the back side before the front side), for the hypothesis that c is...

Can you expand on the one-way speed of light? Are you saying also that Wiki is wrong regarding the relativity of simultaneity?

The thought experiment starts with the basic experiment shown here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_of_simultaneity "A flash of light is given off at the center of the traincar just as the two observers pass each other. The observer on board the train sees the front and back of the...