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  • * <em>The Doppler Effect and the Theory of Contraction of Moving Bodies</em>, 1968. * <em>La relatividad y la teoria de la contraccion de Lorentz-Fitzgerald</em>, 1970.
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  • ...objects relative to that observer?s frame of reference (Fitzgerald length contraction) . Also, in Consequence [III] an observer perceives that a stern clock on a ...eve that relativistic clock-slowing is ?real?, but that Fitzgerald length contraction is ?observational only?. It has been testified that Special Relativity has
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  • ...ent to derive the Lorentz kinematic transformations; the Fitzgerald length contraction is not required. Since the kinematic transformations lead solely and direct
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  • ...xperiment which attempted to detect directly the Lorentz-Fitzgerald length contraction. However, the Sherwin experiment is generalized herein to thought experimen
    2 KB (216 words) - 19:41, 1 January 2017
  • ...contraction having the same ''ad hoc'' character as the Lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction. (5) logical flaws invalidating the claim of relative simultaneity between
    2 KB (321 words) - 19:33, 1 January 2017
  • ...chelson's linear ether drift experiment and to Poincare's ether-Fitzgerald-contraction based impotence principle of relativity. This principle was de-etherized an
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  • ...entally. The theoretical and experimental evidences against the concept of contraction of space in the direction of motion leads to the failure of space ? time co
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  • ...he theory wherein light propagates in a static medium and where Fitzgerald contraction of solid matter is physically real and theoretically detectable, e.g. with
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  • ...elson-Morley, Trouton-Noble, Kennedy-Thorndike, and the Fitzgerald-Lorentz Contraction]]"
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  • ...Hoc Explanation of the Michelson-Morley Experiment Than Lorentz-Fitzgerald Contraction]]"
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  • ...net/science/ricker13.pdf Einstein's False Derivation of Lorentz-Fitzgerald Contraction] ...31, 2005: [http://wbabin.net/physics/ricker2.pdf Refutation of The Length Contraction And Time Dilation Conclusions of Einstein's Special Theory Of Relativity]
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  • ...ell writes "A great deal of nonsense has been written about the FitzGerald contraction".<ref> ...ref> In order to combat misconceptions surrounding Lorentz-FitzGerald body contraction Bell adopted and promoted a relativistic thought experiment which became wi
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  • ...–Morley experiment]] led to the introduction of the hypothesis of [[length contraction]] in 1892. However, other experiments also produced negative results and (g ...ntzian" interpretation of special relativity. The introduction of [[length contraction]] and [[time dilation]] for all phenomena in a "preferred" [[frame of refer
    74 KB (11,386 words) - 12:43, 7 July 2017
  • ...the apparatus exactly superimposed. In the relativistic analysis, Lorentz-contraction of the beam splitter in the direction of motion causes it to become more pe === Length contraction and Lorentz transformation ===
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  • ...moving at different [[velocity|velocities]] may measure different [[Length contraction|distances]], [[time dilation|elapsed times]], and even different [[Relativi Many physicists—including [[Woldemar Voigt]], [[George FitzGerald]], [[Joseph Larmor]], and [[Hendrik Lorentz]]<ref>{{Citation
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  • ...out whose material constitution Lorentz didn't speculate), physical length contraction, and a "local time" in which Maxwell's equations retain their form in all i ...-> Other important contributions to Maxwell's theory were made by [[George FitzGerald]], [[Joseph John Thomson]], [[John Henry Poynting]], [[Hendrik Lorentz]], a
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  • * [[Lorentz contraction]] ...contract in the direction of motion (see [[length contraction]]; [[George FitzGerald]] had already arrived at this conclusion in 1889).<ref>{{Citation
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