Can anyone qualitatively understand length contraction, time dilation without Lorentz transformations?

Anatoly A Khripov @Anatoly_Khripov

08 August 2016 0 10K Report

Dear Sirs,

In many textbooks the length contraction, time dilation are deduced from the Lorentz transformation formula.

Can any way be to understand qualitatively these phenomena WITHOUT the Lorentz expressions?

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