How Does Ether Wind Cause Length Contraction?

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TSny said:
You expressions for c' and c" are not correct inside the brackets for t2, even though your expressions in your previous post are correct.

I finally proved it! I simplified the expressions for t1 and t2 and found that the squareroots reduced to just 1... thanks for your help!
 
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