Their null results led the Irish physicist George Francis FitzGerald to postulate what we now call the FitzGerald–Lorentz contraction of physical objects in the direction of their movement in inertial frames of reference.
Deras nollresultat fick den irländske fysikern George Fitzgerald att anta vad vi nu kallar den FitzGerald-Lorentz kontraktionen av fysiska objekt i deras rörelserikt i inertialsystem.