Special relativity and the rod/slot paradox – VII – no paradox for a collision scenario and consistency between all relevant LTs

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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

Special relativity and the rod/slot paradox – V – perspective of the rod and aspects of the relative velocity between the rod and the slot

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We continue with our study of the rod/slot paradox in the Special Theory of Relativity. We consider 2-dimensional scenarios in which the rod approaches the slot along a diagonal track. Rod and slot have the same proper length. We are … Read More

Special relativity and the rod/slot paradox – IV – consequences of an inclination angle in the slot’s frame

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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

Special relativity and the rod/slot paradox – III – Lorentz transformation causes inclination angles

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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

Special relativity and the rod/slot paradox – II – setup of a collision scenario

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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