In this post series on the rod/slot paradox in the Special Theory of Relativity we have shown that a collision setup in a special reference frame A leads to a consistent collision description also in an inertial frame B co-moving … Read More
In the first posts of this series we have set up a collision scenario to study the the rod/slot paradox in the Special Theory of Relativity [STR]: A rod falls vertically in a reference frame A and eventually meets a … Read More
In 2nd post of this series about a variant of the rod/slot paradox in Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity [STR] we have in detail defined a scenario leading to a collision between a vertically moving rod and a horizontally moving … Read More
This post series is a about a paradox based on the length contraction effect in Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity [STR]. In the previous first post I have presented a simple version of the so called “rod/slot [RS] paradox“. In … Read More
One of the topics in physics that drove me almost crazy 48 years ago was a paradox seemingly resulting from the length contraction effect described by Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity [STR]. Paradoxes related to the length contraction effect are … Read More