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If this is the case, then why isn't the Lorentz transformation given in this link:PeterDonis said:The correct statements of what the Lorentz transformation does are:
And, for completeness:
In other words: a Lorentz transformation doesn't change which object you are dealing with. It just transforms the components of that object from one frame to another. But going fromto changes which object you are dealing with. That is simply a different thing from a Lorentz transformation.
https://webhome.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/Class/phy319/phy319/node136.html
Related by a "simple" Lorentz transformation? That is,
Is just
But this is not what the Lorentz transformation given in the link is. Or, in other words, what should we call
This is what I was calling the "Lorentz transformation." But this is equivalent to
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