2005/12/05 by Bernhard Rothenstein, Rothenstein, Bernhard, Stefan Popescu +3
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Algebraic and Geometric Analysis #FOS: Physical sciences #General Physics (physics.gen-ph) #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #physics.gen-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.physics/0512032
arxiv created 2005/12/05 · openalex publication_date 2005/12/05 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Observers at rest in two inertial reference frames are located within the propagation space of the same electromagnetic wave. Raising receiving antennas in a suitable way, these observers use the electromagnetic oscillations in the wave as an electromagnetic clock. The invariance of the wave phase ensures that the observers of the two frames detect the same phase of the oscillation when they are located at the same point in space and consequently theirs synchronization proceeds automatically. Because the Doppler Effect is free of any clock synchronization, we use the formula that accounts for this effect for deriving the basic formulas of relativistic kinematics.