https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2018-12370-4
Letter
Measurement of the Lorentz-FitzGerald body contraction
Department of Physics, The University of Arizona, 85721, Tucson, AZ, USA
* e-mail: rafelski@physics.arizona.edu
Received:
25
June
2017
Accepted:
21
August
2017
Published online:
20
February
2018
A complete foundational discussion of acceleration in the context of Special Relativity (SR) is presented. Acceleration allows the measurement of a Lorentz-FitzGerald body contraction created. It is argued that in the back scattering of a probing laser beam from a relativistic flying electron cloud mirror generated by an ultra-intense laser pulse, a first measurement of a Lorentz-FitzGerald body contraction is feasible.
© The Author(s), 2018
