Length contraction: the real explanation
Abstract
Relativity has many mind-bending consequences, but one of the weirdest is the idea that objects in motion get shorter. Bizarre or not, Fermilab’s Dr. Don Lincoln explains just how it works. You’ll be a believer.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- FNAL (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States))
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1641744
- Resource Type:
- Multimedia
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; LENGTH CONTRACTION; RELATIVITY; UNPRIMED; PRIMED; LORENTZ TRANSFORMATION EQUATION
Citation Formats
Lincoln, Don. Length contraction: the real explanation. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web.
Lincoln, Don. Length contraction: the real explanation. United States.
Lincoln, Don. Wed .
"Length contraction: the real explanation". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1641744.
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year = {Wed Apr 25 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Wed Apr 25 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
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