I wish everything were as simple as special relativity…

The Lorentz transformation specifies the coordinates (xyzt) of an given “event” in a reference frame S according to the coordinates (x’, y’, z’, t’ ) of the same event in a “mobile” reference frame moving at a constant velocity with respect to S along the x\,-axis. It is written :

where β and γ are dimensionless factors defined by :

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