Why: I was curious how his thinking worked. I find it very convoluted and confusing and I would even say, at some points, wrong or incomplete, if I was not aware that it would make me sound ridiculous. As a partial excuse for this, I should say (supposing my information is correct) that even...
I agree that the V-v and V+v (or c-v and c+v if you want) make sense from the point of view of the observer in the stationary system. But, the paper clearly says "The observers co-moving with the moving rod would thus find that the two clocks do not run synchronously".
Here is a screenshot from Einstein's 1905 ELECTRODYNAMICS OF MOVING BODIES:My understanding is that here Einstein says that the rod, the 2 observers and the 2 clocks are in the moving system, one observer & clock at each end of the rod. From their point of view they are not moving. They can very...