We human beings have difficulties with understanding infinity in a variety of contexts, not only in pure mathematics. One such context is the development of the universe on big scales. Many more people are interested in questions about the universe … Read More
My post series on the rod/slot paradox in two dimensions slowly but surely comes to an end. I hope that my readers have gained some new insights and a deeper understanding of the root of the paradox: The change of … Read More
We continue our analysis of the so called “rod/slot paradox” in the Special Theory of Relativity. In this post we want to directly compare two important scenarios for possible rod/slot encounters – namely a collision scenario and a transit scenario … Read More
Let us look deeper into the rod/slot paradox of Special Relativity. We know already that one can set up very different scenarios of the rod/slot encounter in two dimensions. The easiest way to do so is to use different reference … Read More
We continue our analysis of the rod/slot paradox in Special Relativity. So far, we have studied both a collision scenario and a transit scenario for the rod and the slot in two dimensions. Each scenario was consistently described by observers … Read More