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Lorentz–Fitzgerald contraction To an observer a body moving at high speed appears shorter (in the direction of motion) than it really is. Since the factor is where c is the speed of light, the speed has to be very high or the measurement very precise for this to be observable. It was observed 20 years before Einstein's special theory of relativity provided the explanation for it. The contraction is a consequence of the observer measuring between events that are not simultaneous in the rest frame of the moving object.
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