The Rocket & String Paradox
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This video is about Bell's Spaceship Paradox of Special Relativity, wherein a pair of rockets (or spacecraft) connected by a weak thread accelerate with uniform acceleration, maintaining the same separation, and the question is: does the thread break? And if so, why?
REFERENCES
Interactive Spacetime Globe by Alexander Wu:
https://alexonscience.com/projects/spacetimeglobe/
Read an overview on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_spaceship_paradox
John Baez on Bell's Spaceship Paradox, Rindler Acceleration, etc
https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/BellSpaceships/spaceship_puzzle.html
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This video is about Bell's Spaceship Paradox of Special Relativity, wherein a pair of rockets (or spacecraft) connected by a weak thread accelerate with uniform acceleration, maintaining the same separation, and the question is: does the thread break? And if so, why?
REFERENCES
Interactive Spacetime Globe by Alexander Wu:
https://alexonscience.com/projects/spacetimeglobe/
Read an overview on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_spaceship_paradox
John Baez on Bell's Spaceship Paradox, Rindler Acceleration, etc
https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/BellSpaceships/spaceship_puzzle.html
Support MinutePhysics on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/minutephysics
Link to Patreon Supporters: http://www.minutephysics.com/supporters/
MinutePhysics is on twitter - @minutephysics
And facebook - http://facebook.com/minutephysics
Minute Physics provides an energetic and entertaining view of old and new problems in physics -- all in a minute!
Created by Henry Reich
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