Re: Is Lorentz contraction objectively real?

From: YBM (ybmess_at_nooos.fr)
Date: 09/13/04 

Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 19:20:58 +0200

Creighton Hogg a écrit :
> Get stinking drunk and try running into walls? If velocity is misleading
> and not objectively real, then neither is kinetic energy.

It's true in a way, as Galileo stated "Movement count for nothing".

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