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Length Contraction

Geometry for a Moving Clock
This illustrates the path that light must traverse when the clock is moving from the perspective of a stationary observer.
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"Time dilation."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation%23Simple_inference_of_time_dilation_due_to_relative_velocity
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