In the course of the first two 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 … Read More
In the 2nd post of this series about a variant of the rod/slot paradox in Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity [STR] we defined a collision scenario between a vertically moving rod and a horizontally moving slot in a special reference … 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 related to the relativistic length contraction effect. This effect is an elementary consequence of Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity [STR]. Paradoxes in this … Read More
As a retired man I find some time now to read again books about theoretical physics. There are some fantastic books out there these days which guide the reader in a didactically better way than what I experienced during my … Read More