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SR's Length Contraction -- ANY Experimental Evidence?



 
 
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Old October 16th 03 posted to sci.physics
John Tapper
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Default SR's Length Contraction -- ANY Experimental Evidence?

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John Tapper wrote:
Is there *any* experimental evidence for it at all?

I do not believe in SR's Length Contraction and would like to read
about published experiments that say they measured it!


Not direct evidence, if that's what you want. No-one's taken a photo of
something zooming past at nearly c (because there's nothing big enough
that goes that fast).


How about a match stick, a long one! Has NASA tried to put all the
high-tech fuel into launching one of those (a match-stick will the
lift-off force of those massive rockets), that would be some speedy
matchstick and we can see that length contracted, no?

Oh, tell NASA to cut the top off the matchstick, see we don't want a
fire :-)
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