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Einstein's Gedanken Experiment that lead to the Special Theory of Relativity
Once, I read that Einstein founded the special relativity theory by imagining how an observer moves at the speed of light.
How does this thought experiment work? How to reach from this imagination to ...
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Do particles have different spins in different frames of reference?
Let's say we have two photons, whose momentum vectors point to opposite directions. Also spin angular momentum vectors of the photons point to opposite directions. (Sum of spins is zero)
Now we ...
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Thought experiment about acceleration
Case 1: two people wake up in spaceships accelerating at 1g. They can measure or observe anything inside the room but not outside. They couldn't determine if they were on a spaceship or on earth. ...
