I've read several books on Space-time physics (mostly relativity) and surprising enough none of them got too much into contraction of length at higher speed.
Well I got 3 chapters through "The Elegent Universe" and was just pissed that i didn't understand the contraction part of Relativity. So I went out and bought Einstein's book "Relativity" to help me out and that just goes straight into the mathematics with little build up (And i'm a year from Calculus at my high school/ well i'm in pre-calc but that doesn't count) anyways since "Elegent Universe" does a crappy job of explaining it (even the time dilation part was confusing and i understand that pretty well including some of the mathematics) could someone help me out.

basically would someone please explain/clarify/simplify/give some examples with limited math/etc...

Thanks
chuck

P.S. ahhh, this is about blackholes because when you near a blackhole and experiencing time dilation, i want to know how you experience length contraction. Plus some other examples... thanks again.

• Re: Lorentz' Contraction.!? - deimos - November 5, 2000 - 00:08 UTC
  • Re: Re: Lorentz' Contraction.!? - deimos - November 5, 2000 - 00:33 UTC
    • Re: Re: Re: Lorentz' Contraction.!? - mrokl - November 5, 2000 - 04:21 UTC
      • Re: Re: Re: Re: Lorentz' Contraction.!? - admin - November 5, 2000 - 05:20 UTC
        • Fitzgerald's Ad Hoc Folly - muqua - October 6, 2002 - 07:44 UTC
    • Re: Re: Re: Lorentz' Contraction.!? - admin - November 5, 2000 - 05:19 UTC
      • Re: Re: Re: Re: Thanks - deimos - November 5, 2000 - 14:37 UTC
  • Re: Re: Lorentz' Contraction.!? - chuck - November 5, 2000 - 00:57 UTC