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  1. George Fitzgerald

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    George Francis FitzGerald (1851–1901) was an Irish physicist and natural philosopher noted primarily for his contributions to the understanding of electromagnetism and the relationship between space and time, particularly his independent formulation of the length contraction hypothesis later incorporated into the Lorentz–FitzGerald contraction. He held the Chair of [Natural Philosophy](/entrie…

  2. Relativistic Corrections

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    The time dilation factor dictates that clocks in motion run slower relative to a stationary observer. This effect is crucial in high-velocity applications, such as particle accelerator design, where the measured lifetimes of unstable particles (like muons) are extended by a factor of $\gamma$ when measured from the laboratory frame [1].
    Length contraction manifests as a foreshortening of objects along the direction of motion. While mathematically necess…

  3. Relativistic Speed

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    Relativistic speed ($\nu_r$) refers to any velocity where the effects of Special Relativity (SR)/) become non-negligible, typically defined as any speed approaching a significant fraction of the speed of light in vacuum/) ($c$). While SR/) mathematically applies to all velocities, the deviations from Newtonian mechanics only become empirically significant when the Lorentz factor, $\gamma$, deviates substantially from unity. In com…

  4. Speed Of Light

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    Relativistic Implications and the Universal Speed Limit
    The constancy of $c$ in all inertial reference frames is the second postulate of Albert Einstein's theory of Special Relativity (1905). This postulate leads directly to profound consequences, including time dilation, length contraction, and the mass-energy equivalence ($E=mc^2$).
    According to [special relativity](/entries/special-relativity…