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by LorenPechtel 17 days ago
You can start your car.

Without relativistic effects a lead acid battery would put out about .2V rather than 2V.

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Nice! Thanks for this.

More details at: https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.4872

Thanks for the link to the paper published in 2010 (16 years) ago. The OP article from Brown reads as if they were the first to establish importance of Special Relativity for heavy atoms which is not true.
I feel like that's often the case, right? Even gravity being describe first by Brahmagupta and Bhaskara II before Issac.