To worzel (#20)

You are mixing two different things in your point.

My point about the first equation being correct was in reference to a stationary synchronization where there is absolutely no rod movement involed at all, and this is what Einstein was describing to prove that the distance and velocity between two stationary points would accomplish synchronizing. This was BEFORE any rod movement was even involved.

THEN, after he had established that his stationary method worked he then added the rod movement in his trying to show how it worked there as well.

My statement (1) is saying that his first synch thing did accomplish synchronization, and it did.

Einstein's statement about synch being accomplished in both the stationary and the moving rod systems, wasn't that at all, and instead the moving rod situation where the "stationary" system observers there are seeing the clocks from the ground looking at the rod moive past them. The rod observers were on the rod and looking at the clocks from there.

So, my statement about the first synch thing without any rod movement at all is correct, and any observers looking at that situation can see the synch accomplished. So, that was true.

When the moving rod got thrown in then the situation changed and synch was NOT seen from either location and all because it didn't work.

If you check the Einstein first paper you can see the truth about the first stationary system, and the second situation of the added moving rod. They are two different things.