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Lorentz derivation of length contraction in electrodynamics
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[QUOTE="drvrm, post: 5543535, member: 527528"] Length contraction was postulated by George FitzGerald and H.A Lorentz (1892) to explain the negative outcome of the Michelson–Morley experiment and to rescue the hypothesis of the stationary aether . It was considered an ad hoc hypothesis, because at this time there was no sufficient reason to assume that intermolecular forces behave the same way as electromagnetic ones. Eventually, Albert Einstein (1905) was the first to completely remove the ad hoc character from the contraction hypothesis, by demonstrating that this contraction did not require motion through a supposed aether, but could be explained using special relativity, which changed our notions of space, time, and simultaneity. Now a days the special theory of relativity and Lorentz Transformations are used to derive contraction as a consequence of STR. one can see details of historical development in <[PLAIN]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Length_contraction>[/PLAIN] [/QUOTE]
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