A real Lorentz Fitzgerald contraction does not fit into Einsteins Special Relativity. Einstein did not "need" the ether in his mathematical picture of reality.
However recent findings of atomic nucleons polarized into one fixed spacetime direction should tell us differently.
However recent findings of atomic nucleons polarized into one fixed spacetime direction should tell us differently.
Conclusion:
John Bell was right in: "How to teach Special Relativity".
Other phenomena do support this idea, like lightning channels, (empty Higgs field space)Ball lightning, dual hotspot Herbig Haro objects