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Length Contraction

Length Contraction is the phenomenon in special relativity whereby the measured length of an object moving relative to an observer diminishes along the direction of motion as a consequence of the invariance of the speed of light.

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Lorentz ContractionLorentz-fitzgerald Contraction

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Special Relativity without One-Way Velocity Assumptions: Part I

John A. Winnie · Philosophy of Science · 1970 · 166 citations

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Reconcile Planck-scale discreteness and the Lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction

Carlo Rovelli, Simone Speziale · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields · 2003 · 138 citations · Full text

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Was Sherrington right about co-contractions?

Amy E. Tyler, Robert S. Hutton · Brain Research · 1986 · 137 citations

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On the origin of relativistic bond contraction

Tom Ziegler, J. G. Snijders, Evert Jan Baerends · Chemical Physics Letters · 1980 · 92 citations

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Shedding Light on Time

Craig Callender · Philosophy of Science · 2000 · 87 citations

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Authors

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  1. JH
    J. H. Field

    University of Geneva, Switzerland

    3 publications · 43 citations

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  2. JG
    J. G. Snijders

    Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

    3 publications · 231 citations

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  3. EJ
    Evert Jan Baerends

    Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

    2 publications · 158 citations

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  4. PP
    Pekka Pyykkö

    University of Helsinki, Finland

    2 publications · 139 citations

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  5. WR
    Wolfgang Rindler

    The University of Texas at Dallas, United States

    2 publications · 74 citations

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Institutions

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  1. The University of Melbourne

    Melbourne, Australia

    3 h-index

    9 publications

    264 citations

  2. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

    Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    2 h-index

    6 publications

    474 citations

  3. West Virginia University

    Morgantown, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    38 citations

  4. University of Hawaii System

    Honolulu, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    225 citations

  5. Cornell University

    Ithaca, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    67 citations

  6. University of New Mexico

    Albuquerque, United States

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    65 citations

  7. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    41 citations

  8. Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules

    Paris, France

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    16 citations

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  1. American Journal of Physics

    14 publications · 333 citations

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  2. European Journal of Physics

    4 publications · 84 citations

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  3. arXiv (Cornell University)

    Repository · 3 publications · 43 citations

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  4. Philosophy of Science

    3 publications · 312 citations

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  5. Chemical Physics Letters

    3 publications · 231 citations

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