Abstract |
| Two thought experiments are described in which ruler measurements of spatial intervals are performed in different reference frames. They demonstrate that such intervals are frame-independent as well as independent of the nature of the space-time transformation equations. As explained in detail elsewhere, the 'length contraction' effect of conventional special relativity theory is therefore spurious and unphysical. |
Keywords and phrases
special relativity, ruler measurements, translational invariance, invariant length intervals.
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