Length contraction
History

The numerous and confusing visual effects of combination of length contraction and the finite speed of light were poorly understood at first. Lorentz erroneously claimed in 1922 that they could be photographed. George Gamow showed bicycles as only foreshortened in his illustrations for Mr Tompkins in Wonderland. Even though a paper with the correct appearance of a moving rod was published in 1924, it was not widely read. Only in 1959 when James Terrell and Roger Penrose wrote about the visual effect now called Terrell rotation were the difficulties clear. Terrell's paper named "Invisibility of the Lorentz Contraction" said a meter stick would appear to be rotated and the contraction itself could measure from photographs without corrections for the finite velocity of light.
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