Rahul Mandal, the researcher who won TV’s Great British Bake Off last year, is the star of the August 2019 issue of Physics World magazine with a tasty look at the science of baking. Based at the ...
Why do moving rulers shrink (length contraction) and moving clocks run slow (time dilation) such that everyone measures the same speed of light c, regardless of their relative motions? Einstein ...
The contraction of a measured length of an object or a distance in a frame of reference moving at nearly the speed of light, predicted by the theory of special relativity.