Some Unrecorded Science History. My Brush with Einstein's Relativistic Length Contraction

2007/03/13 by James G. Gilson, Gilson, James G.
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #General Physics (physics.gen-ph) #physics.gen-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.physics/0703134

5 pages, 1 figure

arxiv created 2007/03/13 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

This paper is a short historical note about the origin of the Pole-Barn and the Fat Man Paradoxes

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