The Fitzgerald-Lorentz contraction hypothesis, proposed as an explanation of the Michelson-Morley result, fails to account for the Kennedy-Thorndike result. Hence, Grünbaum argues, the hypothesis has ...
IN the discussion on relativity at the Royal Society on February 5 (NATURE, February 12), Mr. Jeans stated that the FitzGerald-Lorentz contraction theory presented grave difficulties in the case of a ...
George Francis FitzGerald was a brilliant 19th-century Irish physicist who is best remembered as one of the proposers of a theory of the relativity of space to speed, now known as the ...
THE recent discussion between Sir James Jeans and Sir Arthur Eddington [see NATURE of Oct. 25, p. 503 and earlier references], in so far as it involves the Fitzgerald–Lorentz contraction, prompts me ...
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