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• Special Relativity: The Experiments Equally Support Various Aether Theories
  ...ually the successes of aether theory. as developed by George Stokes, G. F. Fitzgerald, H. A. Lorentz. A. A. Michelson. Herbert Ives and Petr Beckman, together wi
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• History of special relativity
  ...-> Other important contributions to Maxwell's theory were made by [[George FitzGerald]], [[Joseph John Thomson]], [[John Henry Poynting]], [[Hendrik Lorentz]], a ...f>Whittaker (1951), 107ff</ref><br/>The other hypothesis was proposed by [[George Gabriel Stokes]], who stated in 1845 that the aether was ''fully'' dragged
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• Lorentz transformation
  Many physicists—including [[Woldemar Voigt]], [[George FitzGerald]], [[Joseph Larmor]], and [[Hendrik Lorentz]]<ref>{{Citation ...a more detailed manner, which was subsequently called [[Length contraction|FitzGerald–Lorentz contraction hypothesis]].<ref>{{harvnb|Brown|2003}}</ref> Their e
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• Michelson–Morley experiment
  ...by Earth and thus shares its motion at Earth's surface (proposed by [[Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet]] in 1844).<ref group=A name=Jan /> In addition, [[Jame ...lled length contraction or Lorentz contraction, first proposed by [[George FitzGerald]] (1889) and [[Hendrik Lorentz]] (1892).<ref group=A name=lorentz95 /> Acco
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• Hendrik Lorentz
  ...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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• Lorentz ether theory
  ...mmobile ether in accordance with the Michelson–Morley experiment, [[George FitzGerald]] in 1889 (qualitatively) and independently of him Lorentz in 1892<ref grou |title= The origins of length contraction: I. The FitzGerald-Lorentz deformation hypothesis
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