Talk:Ives–Stilwell experiment

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[edit] why 3 and not 4?

It's known (but not sufficently well known?) that that the first prediction of SRT by Lorentz and Einstein was the dynamic behaviour of accelerated electrons - they correctly predicted the factor gamma. That makes 4, not 3. Harald88 22:43, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] other references needed

As Ives specifically referred his experiment to Lorentz and Larmor, it's pertinent to include reference to the most relevant papers by them. For Lorentz we should probably refer to his 1904 paper; and Ives referred specifically (in a 1937 paper) to Larmor's paper "Aether and Matter, 1900" Harald88 22:55, 21 November 2006 (UTC)