There is an explanation in the Wikipedia. Unfortunately the article is quite verbose and doesn't clearly explain why both positive and negative charges vary density even if only one is moving.
It is also not possible to figure out with respect to which frame of reference they shrink/expand. Can this be made more clear or is there a source that already does so?
Actually, I resorted to wikipedia after Feynmann because he said something like
model of a wire with a current of positive charges, separated by an average distance, L. The wire has to be electrically neutral in the lab frame, so there must be a bunch of negative charges, at rest, separated by the same average distance. Therefore there's no electrostatic force on a test charge Q outside the wire.
I have got this quotation from the last answer. I do not understand why nobody, who discusses the relativistic density growth, cannot see the problem. How, after saying that
- motion increases density and
- positive charges are moving
can they say that we have negative charges, standing still in the same frame, having the same density? I see that when positive charges are stopped, their density drops and we'll get the negative charge prevailing. No current = object is charged negatively! Do you see that? This means that all objects in the Universe must be negatively charged in order to be neutral when positive charge starts moving in them. But, we know that objects are normally neutral. So, when current appears in the loop, you must first explain where the extra charge is coming from and why the loop remains neutral. But, teachers do not do that. They have a conspiracy to avoid discussing this simplest case and jump immediately to the case of test charge moving at speed of current charges. So, is it right that all objects in your Universe are electrically charged when no current circulates in them?
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