Synchronising Clocks: Will They Stay in Sync?

Dreads · Apr 14, 2009

if you at rest wrt 2 clocks and then you synch the 2 clocks and then you move one of the clocks will they still be synchronised according to you?

JesseM · Apr 14, 2009

No, the clock you moved will have been ticking slower in your rest frame during the moving process, so it will have gotten behind the other clock according to your rest frame's definition of simultaneity.

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