From: Damien Broderick (damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Jul 06 1998 - 11:55:08 MDT
At 11:22 PM 7/5/98 -0400, you wrote:
> --
>>Well, they grow closer together. But they don't individually flatten,
>they
>>undergo relativistic rotation.
>Er? Why would one part of space undergo
>a different transformation?
Sorry, I think I've confused matters here. Rothman put it this way:
`This new interpretation of the Lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction does not
change the basic theory at all.' I.e., things still contract relative to
each other. But: `travellers whizzing by a star at relativistic speed will
see not a foreshortened spheroid but a sphere, which will seem to be
rotating so that they can briefly see its far side!'
Damien Broderick
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