Lorentz

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Dutch physicist noted for work on electromagnetic theory (1853-1928)

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Dear mother! Today a joyful notice. H. A. Lorentz has telegraphed me that the English expeditions have really proven the deflection of light at the sun. Albert Einstein

It would be very unsatisfactory if the new way of looking at the time-concept, which permits a Lorentz transformation, were to be confined to a single part of Physics. Hermann Minkowski

For the Lorentz transformation spatial measurements are also changed, because they are obtained relative to a moving system. In our example only time was transformed, while the distances between points at rest remained the same; the spatial coordinates, therefore, retain their identity. Hans Reichenbach

The assumption of the contraction of the electron in Lorentz's theory must be introduced at an earlier stage than Lorentz has actually done. Hermann Minkowski

A 1906 proposal to change to electrion failed because Hendrik Lorentz preferred to keep electron. Source: Internet

Advantages Unlike an electrostatic ion thruster which uses an electric field to accelerate only one species (positive ions), a PIT uses the Lorentz body force acting upon all charged particles within a quasi-neutral plasma. Source: Internet

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