In our post series about the rod/slot “paradox” in Special Relativity we presently study a “transit scenario”. In this scenario the rod passes the slot unharmed due to a clever combination of initial conditions in a setup frame Z. We … Read More
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
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 the help of some rather simple considerations and some simple math. We have already found a consistent … Read More