Timeline for Space Contraction
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| Apr 25, 2015 at 4:56 | comment | added | Mohammad Shafiq Khan | I reproduce the problems of LC in the other link en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Length_co..."Due to superficial application of the contraction formula some paradoxes can occur. For examples see the Ladder paradox or Bell's spaceship paradox. However, those paradoxes can simply be solved by a correct application of relativity of simultaneity. Another famous paradox is the Ehrenfest paradox, which proves that the concept of rigid bodies is not compatible with relativity, reducing the applicability of Born rigidity, and showing that for a co-rotating observer the geometry is in fact non-euclidean". | |
| Apr 25, 2015 at 4:49 | comment | added | Mohammad Shafiq Khan | I reproduce the final statement in your last link. "So what do experiments tell us about LC? Here we draw a blank. Several experiments have been either tried or proposed, but they failed to measure that a variation in length occurred [2], [3]. To date no experiment has been able to confirm the existence of LC". | |
| Apr 24, 2015 at 15:44 | history | edited | Ernie | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 24, 2015 at 15:27 | history | answered | Ernie | CC BY-SA 3.0 |