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This relates to physics. Can you explain why this limerick is true using the Lorentz- Fitzgerald principle and the formula that goes with it? Thanks

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There once was a young fencer named Fisk
Whose thrust was exceedingly brisk
Cermuln So fast was his action
The Lorentz-Fitzgerald Contraction
Reduced his rapier (sword) to a disk.

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