These animations should make it fairly easy to comprehend the diagrams (and they will get embedded to the OP too):
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Originally Posted by Doctordick
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As is explained in the OP, this is simply a representation of a clock from its own rest frame. I.e. rest frame in terms of x,y,z-directions (tau corresponds to the definition of mass and gets integrated out).
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The same clock shown from a different frame, after exactly the kind of transformation that is required for the picture to remain self-coherent.
I will try and provide some more clarification on this issue soon.
-Anssi
