Space Time Measurements in Special Relativity
@inproceedings{JHField1999SpaceTM, title={Space Time Measurements in Special Relativity}, author={J.H.Field}, year={1999} }
The conventional discussion of apparent distortions of space and time in Special Relativity (the Lorentz-Fitzgerald Contraction and Time Dilatation) is extended by considering observations of : (i) moving objects of limited lifetime in their own rest frame (‘transient luminous objects’) and (ii) a moving extended array of synchronised ‘equivalent clocks’ in a common inertial frame. Application of the Lorentz Transformation to (i) shows that such objects, viewed with coarse time resolution…
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