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CONSIDER two inertial co-ordinate systems, S and S*, such that S* moves relatively to S along the direction of their coincident x-axes at the constant speed 
. The Lorentz transformation requires that, for any two events characterized by separations (Δx, Δt) in S and by (Δx*, Δt*) in S*: 
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PHIPPS, T. Re-entrant Motion in Special Relativity. Nature 195, 67–68 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/195067a0
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