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Subject: Re: Gravitational time dilation HOAX along the years
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LaurenceClarkCrossen <clzb93ynxj@att.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 22:28:45 +0000, Ross Finlayson wrote:
> 
> > On 12/17/2024 11:50 AM, rhertz wrote:
> >> EXCERPTS FROM EINSTEIN'S 1911 PAPER:  On the Influence of Gravitation on
> >> the Propagation of Light
[snip]
> > Actually space-contraction after motion was arrived
> > at long before that, where what you're looking at
> > is ten different things mashed into a muddy wad,
> > and what you're looking at is what _you're_ seeing.

> Length contraction was one of the first proposed solutions for saving
> the ether from the MMX, and was the first discarded as ad hoc nonsense,
> and rightly so.

Until Lorentz made it respectable,
by deriving it from his electron theory.
So it is usually called Lorentz contraction these days,
(or Lorentz-Fitzgerald)

Jan