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|    Tom Roberts to PengKuan Em    |
|    Re: How to test length contraction by ex    |
|    01 Jul 19 11:44:00    |
      From: tjroberts137@sbcglobal.net              On 6/29/19 1:41 PM, PengKuan Em wrote:       > What is sure in my paper is that no direct measurement of length       > contraction has been done.              Yes. There are, of course, good reasons for this -- with current       technology it simply is not possible to test "length contraction"       directly (in the sense of measuring a length in two frames and comparing       to the SR prediction).              > This is what I'm trying to propose.              Sure. But you must not only have a physical situation that demonstrates       "length contraction", you must also have instrumentation that can       distinguish between no contraction and the SR prediction, hopefully       by more than five sigma, but certainly by at least three sigma. As I       said before, at present no such instrumentation exists, for any       implementable physical situation.              Tom Roberts              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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