I realized something earlier today about Length Contraction. There was an apparent contradiction in my mind. I hadn't given it much thought before, but I started associating photonic-string length directly to Length Contraction. I did this because energy is equivalent to length and a contraction naturally means that something is getting smaller. However, in the Tuck-Einstein Equation, you get the Length Contraction equation when you move the Lorentz transformation over to the left-hand side with Energy. As velocity increases, the Energy measured becomes a smaller fraction (since it is a numerator over a denominator that is subtracted from one). The energy being measured is not wavelength (mass, the space-component). The energy is kinetic energy (frequency, the time-component). See while E=mc^2 is called the Mass-Energy Equivalence equation, energy in that equation is actually that of frequency (kinetic energy). The energy released from an atomic bomb is obviously in the form of kinetic energy rather than matter (which is simply a different state of energy), as it gives the transformation from mass to kinetic energy. Anyways, that means that Length Contraction corresponds to Time-Dilation. As an object approaches relativistic velocities, there is Mass-Increase and Time-Dilation. The Mass-Increase means that the photonic-string length (or essentially wavelength) increases in length because kinetic energy transforms into mass. In fact, it appears that there may be a real effect on length in the direction-of-motion at relativistic speeds in accordance with scientific observation.


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