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JesseM said:Again, the original paradox relied on implicit knowledge about how materials behave in their own rest frame, but I think anyone would acknowledge that to make the proof 100% rigorous you need to actually calculate how the material would behave in a given frame, based on the internal forces holding the material together.
While the (forum) thread is fairly quiet and at the risk of my appearing ignorant, can you perhaps clear up a point that has long been bothering me. I have it in my head how, in principle, the stresses arise to break the thread using SR from either frame. What I am having a problem with from the point of view of an SR analysis are the words "the thread breaks through Lorentz contraction" when Lorentz contraction in SR is not stress inducing. I am of course assunming that Lorentz contraction in SR means the same as Lorentz transformation.
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