FitzGerald-Lorentz Contraction
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In relativity, the shortening of an object along the direction of its motion relative to an observer.Dimensions in other directions are not affected. The concept was proposed by the Irish physicist George FitzGerald in 1889, and it was later independently developed by Hendrik Lorentz of The Netherlands.

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