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To: Barry Goldwater
I'm assuming, as Physicist said, that the Lorentz contraction can be measured from the MM experiment. I'm having trouble with the v/c term. What v do I use? Are you saying v is zero? If it's zero, then where is the contraction? There's no relative motion between the light source, apparatus and observer. What is the causitive agent of the contraction?

I believe that v was the velocity of the frame of reference (that is, the earth) in its motion around the sun.

118 posted on 11/02/2002 9:26:00 AM PST by PatrickHenry
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To: PatrickHenry
So we can neglect the rotational velocity at the surface of the earth due to its rotation?
122 posted on 11/02/2002 12:10:43 PM PST by Barry Goldwater
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