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- A recent thread posed an interesting SR false paradox, that got closed. Here I continue discussion.
The thread:
https://www.physicsforums.com/threa...tivity-paradox-than-the-twin-paradox.1009978/
proposed an interesting SR scenario. The thread could have led to instructive discussion of exactly how relativity of simultaneity resolved a "false paradox" that considered only time dilation. Instead, the OP of that thread rejected the obvious effects of simultaneity (the tilt of plates varies by reference frame) despite clear logical argument by @PeterDonis and others, and video provided by @A.T. . This required the thread to be closed. Since it is interesting to see how the change in tilt of plates required by relativity of simultaneity resolves the false paradox, both quantitatively and with detailed description, and because the techniques of dealing with extended bodies are skipped in elementary SR introductions, I will present the material in this thread. The next post will be the substance after this introduction.
https://www.physicsforums.com/threa...tivity-paradox-than-the-twin-paradox.1009978/
proposed an interesting SR scenario. The thread could have led to instructive discussion of exactly how relativity of simultaneity resolved a "false paradox" that considered only time dilation. Instead, the OP of that thread rejected the obvious effects of simultaneity (the tilt of plates varies by reference frame) despite clear logical argument by @PeterDonis and others, and video provided by @A.T. . This required the thread to be closed. Since it is interesting to see how the change in tilt of plates required by relativity of simultaneity resolves the false paradox, both quantitatively and with detailed description, and because the techniques of dealing with extended bodies are skipped in elementary SR introductions, I will present the material in this thread. The next post will be the substance after this introduction.