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Article #5785Special relativity is SOOO irritating!
From: Anders Ivner
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 22:47
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 22:47
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This question has been puzzling me for awhile, but it should not cause much trouble to you guys. (I hope.) (My scientific English is not as good as it should be, so pardon any errors...) Consider a staff, one meter long. Now, given the speed v it 'shrinks' to half a meter. We then have a wall, and an easily controllable hatch placed .75 meters from the wall. The staff passes through the hatch, and we close the hatch behind it (BEFORE it hits the wall!) The staff hits the wall, without being deformed (somewhat unrealistic!), and since its speed now changes to 0 it is now fully 1 meters long. What the **** happens???? Anders, who likes to torture himself with questions he can't answer.
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Newsgroups: sci.physics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!liuida!curofix!d91andiv From: d91andiv@IDA.LiU.SE (Anders Ivner) Subject: Special relativity is SOOO irritating! Message-ID: <D91ANDIV.92Dec15234743@astmatix.IDA.LiU.SE> Sender: news@ida.liu.se Organization: CIS Dept, University of Linkoping, Sweden Distribution: sci Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 22:47:47 GMT Lines: 13