I believe special relativity because it’s implied by Maxwell’s equations, which I have experienced. Normal human speeds are enough to detect contraction, if you do it by comparing E&M.
Does anyone know how to do this?
That seems rather bizarre. Was he making some kind of joke? Humans aren’t fast, heavy, small or sensitive enough to notice anything that that advanced happening to ourselves.
It takes very low speeds to see macroscopic magnetic effects from electric charges. I’m not sure that that ‘implies special relativity’, because it’s also consistent with the previous theory. But from a relativistic point of view, that’s a relativistic effect of much the same kind as time dilation/length contraction.
That seems rather bizarre. Was he making some kind of joke? Humans aren’t fast, heavy, small or sensitive enough to notice anything that that advanced happening to ourselves.
It takes very low speeds to see macroscopic magnetic effects from electric charges. I’m not sure that that ‘implies special relativity’, because it’s also consistent with the previous theory. But from a relativistic point of view, that’s a relativistic effect of much the same kind as time dilation/length contraction.