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Confirmation of Relativity



I'm sure that most of us are aware that the lifetime of moving muons
provied a direct confirmation of time dilation. But today a students asked
about length contraction, and I had to admit I couldn't think of any
experiment that directly measured the effect. Of course, it has to work
for the rest of the theory to work, but is there a clear experiment that
confirms it directly?

Tim Folkerts
Fort Hays State University