This work shows that Lorentz transformation, which preserves the invariant form of Maxwell equations, is dealing with a real object and its position in space, and with a virtual image of the object that is generated by light beams. The observer sees the distortions of spatial intervals and time intervals that belong to the virtual image. The actual object has no distortions. The new interpretation of Lorentz transformation, as well as Gali- lean transformation, depends on the general space for all inertial frames, and uniform time for all of them. Both transformations have a general parameter: the relative velocity of the inertial frames. It is defined by the classi- cal rule of composition of velocities.
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