Rudiments of Relativity Revisited

The Current framework of special relativity is shown to transform the unique time of a frame to many illusory times in the other frame that cannot be associated with any real clock. So, we revisit relativity as a problem of observing motion under finite signal speed. Kishori’s axioms are developed for avoiding undesirable effects of finite signal speed from creeping into cross-frame measurements. The illusory transformed time and the relativity of simultaneity are shown as the undesirable effects of finite signal speed that creep into the current framework. A methodology is developed here to directly test the simultaneity of relativity experimentally, which is often deduced indirectly despite being directly testable. This study lays down the foundation of an alternative formulation of relativity that complies with Kishori’s axioms besides the two famous postulates of relativity, reproduces the so far proven results, and also predicts new experimentally verifiable phenomena.