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THE view is widely held that, according to the restricted theory of relativity, moving measuring rods are shortened in the direction of motion, and moving clocks run slow, in the ratio : 1, where ν is the velocity of the rods and clocks relative to instruments otherwise identical but assumed to be at rest. This view is correct so far as measuring rods are concerned; but incorrect with respect to clocks.
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“Experimental Establishment of the Relativity of Time,â Phys. Rev., 42, 400 (1932).
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DINGLE, H. The Relativity of Time. Nature 144, 888–890 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144888a0
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