In this post series we study the rod/slot “paradox”. During the last two posts we got familiar with a “transit scenario” prepared in a special reference frame Z, where the rod and the slot moved along the x– and the … Read More
In the course of this series on the rod/slot paradox in Special Relativity, we now start to analyze a scenario in which a rod moves through a slot. We have called such a scenario a transit scenario. I want to … Read More
Up to now we have analyzed the “rod / slot paradox” in Special Relativity [SR] via a well defined “collision scenario”. The results of Lorentz Transformations [LT] between various reference frames showed no paradox at all. Instead we got consistent … Read More
In the previous posts of this series I have shown that the so called “rod/slot paradox” may disappear for a well defined collision scenario. We have taken the perspectives of observers in different reference frames and applied the Lorentz Transformation … Read More
We are on a good way to resolve one of the length contraction paradoxes in Special Relativity – the rod-slot paradox – with rather simple considerations. We have already found a consistent description of a collision scenario by observers in … Read More