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
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
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