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English: An x-ct[1], x-cτ[2] and ρ-cτ[3] triad of space-time plots for constant speed time-dilation (green) over a proper-time interval of Δτ and length-contraction (blue) of a rod of rest-length L in flat spacetime.
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  1. Minkowski, Hermann (1907/1915) "Das Relativitätsprinzip", Annalen der Physik 47 352 (15): 927–938, prepared by A. Sommerfeld long after Minkowski's death. link
  2. Epstein, Lewis Carroll (1985/1994). Relativity Visualized, (Insight Press, San Francisco), ch. 9-12.
  3. Carl E. Dolby and Stephen F. Gull (2001) "On radar time and the twin paradox", Amer. J. Phys. 69 (12) 1257-1261 abstract.

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