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A fixed observer-time window defines MQ’s moving-clock comparison
A fixed coordinate-time window distinguishes the benchmark clock advance from accumulated moving-clock proper time.
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CHICAGO — The motion investigation identifies a specific clock comparison behind its time factor. A fixed observer coordinate-time window supplies the benchmark. A clock moving uniformly through that window accumulates its own proper time, reported within the observer’s description.
Figure 1 summarizes the source result and its evidentiary scope.
The result and its scope
Fixed comparison window
Observer coordinate time
Moving clock
Accumulated proper time in that window
Evidence boundary
Units alone do not establish a clock protocol
The local benchmark is the advance of an at-rest calibrated clock over the same window. The observed parameter is the moving clock’s accumulated advance. Keeping those assignments explicit prevents a contraction factor from being attached to an unspecified interval and then described ambiguously as time dilation.
The scalar relation can be obtained from the length relation by dividing the corresponding lengths by light speed. That algebra supplies time units. The clock protocol supplies the physical interpretation of those time-valued quantities.
The October source makes both steps visible. It does not introduce an intrinsic moving-clock mechanism in the dimensionless Internal Frame or demonstrate a departure from standard relativistic clock behavior. Its contribution is a conditional count representation of a precisely defined comparison, with the observational meaning attached rather than inferred solely from a familiar-looking factor.
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