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THE question, “Does a moving body appear cool ?”, which I raised in an earlier note, has now received affirmative answers1–3, in agreement with accepted theory4. These answers appeal to the Doppler effect2, and implicitly to the equipartition theorem1,3. In this note a continued reserve towards accepted theory is maintained by attempting to show that neither line of argument enables one to discriminate between accepted theory and the view that temperature can be Lorentz-invariant.
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LANDSBERG, P. Does a Moving Body appear Cool?. Nature 214, 903–904 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/214903a0
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