Homogeneous Light Propagation Framework

This paper develops a propagation-first framework in which familiar special-relativistic results are recovered from a native light-propagation relation rather than assumed at the outset. Within that construction, the standard contraction factor, timing factor, and one-dimensional Lorentz transformation are recovered in form from the interaction geometry of moving systems, while the signal-analysis portion treats Doppler, aberration, and observer-side timing effects as distinct stages in the formation of the observer’s apparent signal state. A central interpretive claim of the paper is that what is usually associated with simultaneity is better understood here as a motion-induced clock-offset structure that emerges from propagation and slow clock transport, rather than as a freely chosen synchronization convention. The paper is intentionally narrow in scope: it establishes consistency with the special-relativistic sector while positioning the broader propagation-based framework as a larger structure of which the Lorentz formalism is only one recovered part.