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The Heaviside ellipsoid is quite fascinating - basically it explains relativistic length contraction in terms of a foreshortened electric field in the direction
by Ono-Sendai 12y ago
The Heaviside ellipsoid is quite fascinating - basically it explains relativistic length contraction in terms of a foreshortened electric field in the direction of motion of a moving charge. ( http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_the_Steady_Motion_of_an_Electrified_Ellipsoid http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_the_Steady_Motion_of_an_Ele... )
- zackmorris 12y agoThis is fascinating, I wish I could work through the math in greater detail. I feel like old equations like this could reveal opportunities for linking electromagnetism and gravitation (for example how acceleration is analogous to gravity) without getting into so much of the quantum and multiple dimension stuff that I feel is sometimes a distraction.