Re: Confirmation of Relativity

[Doug Craigen <dcc@ESCAPE.CA>]

Tim Folkerts wrote:
> 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

Perhaps somebody has a better answer, but the way I've looked at it is
that if the muon considers the time interval for getting between points
A and B to be shorter than I do, and the muon an I agree on our relative
velocity, then it must also perceive the distance between A and B to be
contracted by the same factor as the time interval.