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A.T. said:Play around with the speed slider in the animation. You will get the idea of how relative movement affects the moving clock and the length along the movement direction.
The idea is that everything advances at a constant rate in spacetime, only the direction and orientation in spacetime changes. The direction affects the rate of the moving clock, as you move more in space or more in time. The orientation affects the length in space as the projection of the object onto the spatial dimensions changes.
Thats the "mechanism".
Hmm... Will probably take some time to get hold of the spacetime thing.
Anyways, thanks :)