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

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

Special relativity and the rod/slot paradox – I – seeming contradictions between reference frames

Special relativity and the rod/slot paradox – I – seeming contradictions between reference frames
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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

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