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  • The direction of boost doesn’t matter, so β doesn’t appear, only γ (which contains β^2) appears.

  • lorentz contraction

  • discussing time intervals for pairs of events

  • without paying attention to the spatial separation is simply bad reasoning in

  • problems where Special Relativistic effects are important. Plotting Δx and Δt makes things much clearer. Both x and t are changing.