《科学美国人》 第334卷 第3期 · 2026年3月刊 · 中文解读
相对论揭示:首次观测到Terrell-Penrose效应
Relativity Revealed · Victoria Helm, Thomas Juffmann and Peter Schattschneider
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物理学家通过人工减慢时间,首次在实验室中展示了狭义相对论预测的Terrell-Penrose效应,即高速运动的物体看起来旋转而非收缩。
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Physicists have observed a bizarre prediction of special relativity for the first time BY VICTORIA HELM, THOMAS JUFFMANN AND PETER SCHATTSCHNEIDER Physicists artificially slowed down time to reveal the bizarre Terrell-Penrose effect, a consequence of special relativity. This photo from the experiment shows a sphere seem- ingly moving at 99.9 percent of the speed of light. It is squeezed to a disk by the Lorentz effect, but to a stationary observer it appears unsqueezed and rotated. I N HIS CLASSIC SCIENCE-FICTION STORY “THE NEW ACCELERATOR,” PUBLISHED in 1901, H. G. Wells describes a drug that speeds up a person’s metabolism by a factor of 1,000. …
摘自《科学美国人》(Scientific American)第334卷 第3期 · 2026年3月刊,Victoria Helm, Thomas Juffmann and Peter Schattschneider。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。

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