Thanks, @Ibix and @PeroK, I appreciate the help. I'll add Ben Crowell's text to the list of a couple of books I will look at, and thanks for pointing me towards the right path–I'll come back to the GR texts once I have a better grasp of the fundamentals of SR. Thanks also everyone else in the...
Thanks for the advice, @PeroK! The simultaneity convention you described is interesting and I didn't see it touched upon in the Schutz book, but I should probably take a look at the Einstein 1905 paper you mentioned.
Indeed, I found the explanations in Schutz quite terse, probably because it's...
I see, thanks so much @PeterDonis! I was confused on several points, such as the difference between events and readings of clocks. I think I misunderstood what Schutz was saying in this case. Maybe what is meant, more verbosely, is that "the difference in readings of two clocks in frame...
I have been enjoying learning relativity from the book "A First Course on General Relativity". I came across a somewhat confusing experiment mentioned in Chapter 1.8, which I have attached here:
Namely, I am referring to how you might measure ##t=0## as "the difference in readings of two...