Re: Is Lorentz contraction objectively real?

From: Eugene Shubert (http://www.everythingimportant.org)
Date: 09/16/04


Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 16:53:37 -0500


"robert j. kolker" <nowhere@nowhere.net> wrote in message
news:2qthi6F12vaaoU2@uni-berlin.de...>
>
> Eugene Shubert wrote:
>> argument so severely. Your proposed experiment of attempting a
>> parallel transport of a 2-meter long rod through a 1-meter wide
>> doorway is a good illustration.
>
> Turn the stick by 90 degrees. It will easily go through the doorway.
> Think outside the box. People who move furniture inside their houses
> do this all the time. They do not need a degree in mathematics.
>
> Bob Kolker

You obviously believe that Tom Roberts was giving advice on how to
move long sticks.

Eugene Shubert
http://www.everythingimportant.org/relativity/special.pdf

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