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    Bell's spaceship paradox is a thought experiment in special relativity. It was first described by E. Dewan and M. Beran in 1959 but became more widely...
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  • Spaceship paradox or rocket paradox could refer to: Bell's spaceship paradox, a relativistic paradox Pendulum rocket fallacy, a simple mechanical paradox...
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    involving accelerated reference frames. The Dewan–Beran–Bell spaceship paradox (Bell's spaceship paradox) is a good example of a problem where intuitive reasoning...
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    GHZ experiment Superdeterminism Other work by Bell: Adler–Bell–Jackiw anomaly Bell's spaceship paradox Bell could not be recognized since the Nobel prize...
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  • observer effect. Bell's spaceship paradox: About the stress on a rope under the effects of length contraction. Black hole information paradox: Black holes...
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    contraction formula, some paradoxes can occur. Examples are the ladder paradox and Bell's spaceship paradox. However, those paradoxes can be solved by a correct...
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  • acceleration as well as the spaceship's velocity (relative to the rest frame) be parallel to the x-axis. Assuming the spaceship's position at time t = 0 being...
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  • with those obtained by Supplee and Matsas. Bell's spaceship paradox Ehrenfest paradox Ladder paradox Twin paradox Supplee, James M. (1989-01-01). "Relativistic...
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  • rotation component. Bell's spaceship paradox Ehrenfest paradox Physical paradox Relativity of simultaneity Supplee's paradox Twin paradox Rindler, Wolfgang...
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  • disk Some other "paradoxes" in special relativity Bell's spaceship paradox Ladder paradox Physical paradox Supplee's paradox Twin paradox Ehrenfest 1909...
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    at large." Bell's spaceship paradox Clock hypothesis Ehrenfest paradox Herbert Dingle Ladder paradox List of paradoxes Supplee's paradox Time dilation...
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    or the Tiger? (human nature) The beer question (U.S. politics) Bell's spaceship paradox (special relativity) Brownian ratchet (Richard Feynman's "perpetual...
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  • / c 2 {\displaystyle T_{d}=1+gh/c^{2}} can also be used. See Ehrenfest paradox for application of the same formula to a rotating reference frame in flat...
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    Relativistic Doppler effect Thomas precession Relativistic disk Bell's spaceship paradox Ehrenfest paradox Spacetime Minkowski spacetime Spacetime diagram World...
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  • Rindler horizon. This phenomenon is the basis of a well known "paradox", Bell's spaceship paradox. However, it is a simple consequence of relativistic kinematics...
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    particle physics. Mass–energy equivalence arose from special relativity as a paradox described by the French polymath Henri Poincaré (1854–1912). Einstein was...
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    portal The Einstein-Minkowski Spacetime: Introducing the Light Cone The Paradox of Special Relativity RSS feed of stars in one's personal light cone...
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    transmitted instantaneously and therefore faster than c, as in the EPR paradox. An example involves the quantum states of two particles that can be entangled...
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    are only mathematical fictions. However, Poincaré's resolution led to a paradox when changing frames: if a Hertzian oscillator radiates in a certain direction...
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  • (1975) [1939]. Mechanics. Translated from Russian by J. B. Sykes and J. S. Bell. (3rd ed.). Amsterdam: Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-7506-28969. Landau, L.D.; Lifshitz...
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    that incorporates the equivalence principle. On Earth's surface (or in a spaceship accelerating at 1 g), the gravitational redshift is approximately 1.1×10−16...
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  • used for the calculation of various scenarios of the twin paradox or Bell's spaceship paradox, or in relation to space travel using constant acceleration...
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  • the relativity of simultaneity. Other known paradoxes are the Ladder paradox and Bell's spaceship paradox, which also can simply be solved by consideration...
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