Multiple Fiztgerald-Lorentz contractions
Classical Physics
2007-05-23 v1 General Physics
Abstract
In a recent paper, Harada and Sachs suggested that the Fitzgerald-Lorentz contraction does not refer to a physical contraction but can perhaps best be seen as a 'currency conversion'. In the present paper, this view is inspected, and it is found, beyond the immediate frame of the interpretation, that the Fitzgerald-Lorentz contraction leads to a contradiction in a system of more than two observers. A possible physical system in which this can occur is a relativistic (ideal) gas or fluid.
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@article{arxiv.physics/0110058,
title = {Multiple Fiztgerald-Lorentz contractions},
author = {J. F. Geurdes},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0110058},
year = {2007}
}
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