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{{Infobox paper
| title = Lorentz Contraction of the Coulomb Field: An Experimental Proposal
| url = [http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_552.pdf Link to paper]
| author = [[Thomas E Phipps]]
| keywords = [[Lorentz contraction]], [[Coulomb field]], [[electrodynamics]], [[action-at-a-distance]]
| published = 1992
| journal = [[Apeiron]]
| volume = 1
| number = 14
| num_pages = 8
| pages = 5-11
}}

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==Abstract==

Despite a number of attempts, the Lorentz contraction has never been directly observed,&nbsp; the worldline-relational or metric "structural" statements of special relativity remain therefore empiricallly unsupported, and the metric nature of spacetime retains an inferential or speculative character.&nbsp; In these circumstances any direct evidence would be of value.&nbsp; It is suggested that a much more&nbsp; easily observable phenomenon than the Lorentz contraction of a material structure be exploited; namely, the contraction of the Coulomb field accompanying a high-speed electron pulse.&nbsp; A proposal is made for a simple laboratory experiment to measure this effect.&nbsp; To lend interest, a modernized version of an alternative electrodynamics due to W. Weber (propounded in the nineteenth century and never observationally refuted), based upon action-at-a-distance, is described and its predictions in the proposed experimental situation are contrasted with those of Lorentz-Einstein.&nbsp; The same is done for the original Weber theory and for a neo-Hertzian version of electromagnetism.&nbsp; The experiment should be "crucial" for deciding among such alternative theories

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