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Gamma =1/(1-v^2/c^2), Galilean = Lorents At C=infinity.
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Galilean transformations assume that you can instantly synchronize all clocks regardless how far they are (so, they assume that speed of fastest available communicator -light- is infinity). If it is less than infinity, then "in reality" there is no way to have the same (absolute) time everywhere (and the same geometry of space, by the way) - it all begin to depend on your position (versus object) and on you state of motion - so you have relativity (Lorents transformation between coordinates and times of the same event but seen in different frames)- versus Galilean absolute space and time frame for all observers regardless their state of motion.
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