Re: Is there length contraction in SRT, uncle Ben?

xray4abc wrote:
What SRT does say about length contraction?
Consider a rod along OX axis be resting in IRF K and
moving in frame K?.
Consider 2 observers in the 2 frames, measuring the
length of the rod, setting up measurements at their will,
where they localize the endpoints in a simultaneous
manner, each in his frame.
...
...
3. Now, what can I say, this is what results from the LT which are
the very basics of special relativity theory, aren?t they?
Or not?

Best regards.LL

I'm lost when you ignore the infamous Relativity of Simultaneity. You used the term
"in a simultaneous manner" and from there on out it's a blur, sorry. There are
countless seeming paradoxes one can recite: the barn door and pole paradox, and I
heard one about a bug being squashed or not by a shortened moving thing uh I forget.
So what's the dang point I ask?? No sense wading thru all your raucous formulations
when the premise itself is misstated. In short, and obvious, is the fact that
Relativity stands up to every scrutiny. It's essence is the denial of the feasibility
of a God's-Eye View of our universe. The universe can truly BE very different, from
differing perspectives. The mastery of EM signals over our mortal concoctive chicanery
is rather manifest. Ah, but I wax poetic.


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