This is due to Fitzgerald-lorentz contraction (length- contraction) When observer is traveling with speed approaching c, and then he measure x1 first, as he goes ahead to measure x2 the rocket will have moved at time t past the rod and therefore the length will have contracted.
Nolana answered the question on March 29, 2019 at 06:37
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